엘리슨 오니즈카

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엘리슨 오니즈카(Elison Shoji Onizuka, 鬼塚承次, 1946년 6월 24일 ~ 1986년 1월 28일)는 미국의 우주 비행사이자 군인이다.

Ellison Shoji Onizuka was an American astronaut, engineer, and U.S. Air Force flight test engineer from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C. He died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, on which he was serving as Mission Specialist for mission STS-51-L. Onizuka was the first Asian American and the first person of Japanese ancestry to reach space.