Asian Californians are residents of the state of California who are of Asian ancestry.
 California has the largest Asian American population in the U.S., and second highest proportion of Asian American residents, after Hawaii.
 As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Asian-Americans were 13.6% of the state's population.
 The largest Asian American ethnic subgroups in California are Filipino Americans, Chinese Americans, Vietnamese Americans, and Indian Americans. Asian Americans are concentrated in the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles area.
Margo Machida is an art historian, curator, cultural critic and artist.
 She is Professor of Art History and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
 Her book, "Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary", (Duke University Press, 2009) was awarded the Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2011.
 In 2003 she co-edited the book, "Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art", published by the University of California Press.
 She was a co-founder of Godzilla, an arts advocacy organization for Asian American artists.
 Machida curated the exhibition, "Icons of Presence: Asian American Activist Art" presented at the Chinese Cultural Center in San Francisco, California.
 She received her PhD in American Studies from the State University of New York, Buffalo.
Lenn Haruki Sakata (Japanese: 坂田春樹 born June 8, 1954) is a former professional baseball player who played in the Major Leagues primarily as a utility player from 1977 to 1987 and was a member of the Baltimore Orioles 1983 World Series Championship team.
 He was the second Asian American to play Major League Baseball.
 He is Yonsei (fourth-generation American of Japanese ancestry).
 Sakata graduated from Kalani High School in 1971.
 Sakata played college baseball for the Gonzaga Bulldogs of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.
Asian American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of Asian descent.
 Asian American literature became a category during the 1970s but didn't see a direct impact in viewership until later in the 1970s.
 Perhaps the earliest references to Asian American literature appeared with David Hsin-fu Wand's "Asian American Heritage: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry", published in 1974.
 One of the earlier pieces of Asian American literature produced by Combined Asian Resources Project (CARP) was "Aiiieeeee!
 An Anthology of Asian-American Writers" (1974).
 This anthology collected staples of long-forgotten Asian American literature and criticized the lack of visibility of this literature.
 This anthology brought to light the necessity of visibility and criticism of Asian American literature; with visibility came recognition of new literature.
 Elaine Kim's seminal book of criticism, "Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context", was published in 1982 and was the first critical book on the topic.
Japanese Americans (日系アメリカ人 , Nikkei Amerikajin ) are Americans who are fully or partially of Japanese descent, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics.
 Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century, but since the 2000 census, they have declined in number to constitute the sixth largest Asian American group at around 1.3 million, including those of partial ancestry.
 According to the 2010 census, the largest Japanese American communities were found in California with 272,528, Hawaii with 185,502, New York with 37,780, Washington with 35,008, Illinois with 17,542, and Ohio with 16,995.
 Southern California has the largest Japanese American population in North America, and the city of Torrance holds the densest Japanese American population in the 48 contiguous states.
Lotus Long (July 18, 1909 – September 14, 1990) was an American actress.
 She was born Lotus Pearl Shibata in New Jersey, to a father of Japanese ancestry and a mother of Hawaiian ancestry.
 She came to Southern California during the 1920s to act in Hollywood films, and usually portrayed ethnic Asian female characters in supporting roles.
 She used the name "Lotus Long" for stage and film.
 Because of her adopted surname, people generally assumed that she was of Chinese ancestry – something she later relied on to avoid mass incarceration in American internment camps with other persons of Japanese ancestry, both legal permanent residents and American citizens, during World War II.
Mark Izu is an American jazz double bass player and composer.
 He is of Japanese ancestry and frequently combines jazz with Asian traditional musics (particularly the ancient Japanese court music known as "gagaku") in his compositions.
 He has performed with Anthony Brown and Jon Jang.
 Izu is a seminal leader in the Asian American Jazz movement.
 His compositions include symphony, film, theater, dance and jazz.
 The principal curator of the original Asian American Jazz Festival held at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for nearly two decades, he helped establish the genre.
 In addition to the double bass, he also plays the Japanese "shō" and Chinese "sheng" (both mouth organs).
Aiiieeeee!
 An Anthology of Asian-American Writers is a 1974 anthology by Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, Shawn Wong and other members of the Combined Asian Resources Project (CARP).
 It helped establish Asian American Literature as a field by recovering and collecting representative selections from Chinese-, Japanese-, and Filipino-Americans from the past fifty years—many of whom had been mostly forgotten.
 This pan-Asian anthology included selections from Carlos Bulosan, Diana Chang, Louis Chu, Momoko Iko, Wallace Lin, Toshio Mori, John Okada, Oscar Peñaranda, Sam Tagatac, Hisaye Yamamoto, Wakako Yamauchi, many of whom are now staples in Asian American literature course.
 Because of this anthology and the work of CARP, many of these authors have been republished; at that time, however, they received little attention from publishers critics because they didn't subscribe to popular stereotypes but depicted what Elaine H. Kim calls the "unstereotyped aspects of Asian American experience".
 The "aiiieeeee!"
 of the title comes from a stereotypical expression used by Asian characters in old movies, radio and television shows, comic books, etc.
 These same stereotypes affected the anthology itself: when the editors tried to find a publisher, they had to turn to a historically African-American press because, as Chin states:The blacks were the first to take us seriously and sustained the spirit of many Asian American writers... [I]t wasn't surprising to us that Howard University Press understood us and set out to publish our book with their first list.
 They liked our English we spoke [sic] and didn't accuse us of unwholesome literary devices.
Ellison Shoji Onizuka (June 24, 1946 – January 28, 1986 ) was an American astronaut 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.
 He was the first Asian American and the first person of Japanese ancestry to reach space.
The Onizuka Prop Wash Award recognizes the student at the United States Air Force Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) who contributed most to class spirit and morale.
 The honoree from each class is selected by his or her fellow students rather than by school faculty.
 The award is named in memory of TPS graduate Ellison Onizuka who perished in the explosion of the Space Shuttle "Challenger" in 1986.

Question:  The Onizuka Prop Wash Award was named in memory of irst Asian American and the first person of Japanese ancestry to what?
Answer: reach space