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The first Asian to go into space was Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi. He flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-114 mission in 2005. However, prior to Noguchi, the first Asian to reach space was the Indian pilot Rakesh Sharma, who flew aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz T-11 in 1984.

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