Education
He received a Bachelor of Science in solid-state physics from the University of Tsukuba in 1983.
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He received a Bachelor of Science in solid-state physics from the University of Tsukuba in 1983.
He worked for Japanese advertising company Dentsu between 1983 and 2005. In January 2015 he began training as an International Space Station spaceflight participant. Initially he was training to be the backup for the September 2015 Sarah Brightman Soyuz Turnaround Management Association-18M/Soyuz Turnaround Management Association-16M flight.
On May 13, 2015, Sarah Brightman announced she had withdrawn from training, making Takamatsu part of the main crew.
Takamatsu declined to take up the flight option on that flight, as he had planned to carry out art projects while in space, and the projects would not be ready by the September flight date. Instead, he would schedule a later flight, after the projects are ready for flight.
Takamatsu was replaced on Soyuz Turnaround Management Association-18M by Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov, from the first Kazakhstan cosmonaut class, the first Kazakhstani cosmonaut selected to fly. Takamatsu"s future flight is projected for the 2017-2020 period.