Dschügderdemidiin Gürragschaa
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| Country: | Mongolian People's Republic |
| selected on | March 1, 1978 |
| Calls: | 1 space flight |
| Begin: | March 22, 1981 |
| Landing: | March 30, 1981 |
| Time in space: | 7d 20h 42min 3s |
| retired on | March 30, 1981 |
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Dschügderdemidiin Gürragshaa (Sansar) ( Mongolian Жүгдэрдэмидийн Гүррагчаа (Сансар) ; born December 5, 1947 in Gurwanbulag , Bulgan-Aimag , Mongolian People's Republic ) is an engineer and former cosmonaut . He is the first and so far only Mongol in space .
Life
After Dschügderdemidiin Gürrachtschaa had studied aerospace engineering in Ulan Bator , he successfully completed his training as an aerospace engineer at the military academy for air force engineers “Prof. NJ Zhukovsky ” . He was accepted on March 1, 1978 as a cosmonaut of the Interkosmos program. In 1981 he flew into space as a research cosmonaut with the tenth guest team of the Salyut 6 . The feeder spaceship was Soyuz 39 . With the landing on March 30, 1981, he retired from the cosmonaut corps.
Gurraga became major general in the Mongolian air force. He was later appointed Deputy Chairman of the Central Defense Council of the Mongolian People's Republic. To this end, Gurragaa was head of a scientific institute in Ulan Bator. Since 1997, Gurragaa has been using the name Sansar ("space") in place of a Mongolian clan name after the knowledge of his actual clan membership was lost due to a ban during the communist era. From 2000 to 2004, Major General Gurragaa was his country's defense minister.
Güragtschaa is married and has one child.
literature
- Peter Stache: spaceman from A to Z . Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin [East] 1988, ISBN 3-327-00527-3 .
See also
Web links
- Dschügderdemidiin Gürragschaa on spacefacts.de
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| SURNAME | Dschügderdemidiin, Gürragschaa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sansar, Gurragaa; Gürragchaa, Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa; Жүгдердемидийн Гүррагчаа |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mongolian cosmonaut, pilot, Mongolian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gurwanbulag , Bulgan-Aimag , Mongolian People's Republic |