Takuya was born in 1975 and was selected as an astronaut in 2009. Before joining JAXA, he was a pilot for All Nippon Airways, accumulating over 3,700 flight hours flying the Boeing 767. This was the second mission to space, following his previously successful mission with JAXA.

Elon Musk's SpaceX and NASA has successfully launched the Crew-10 mission from Florida on Saturday, March 15, to send four astronauts- Anne C. McClain and Nichole Ayers of NASA, Takuya Onishi of Japan,

Reaching orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the newest crew includes NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, both military pilots; and Japan’s Takuya Onishi and Russia’s Kirill Peskov, both former airline pilots. They will spend the next six months at the space station, considered the normal stint, after springing Wilmore and Williams free.