Faiz Khaleed

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Faiz Khaleed
Faiz Khaleed
Country: Malaysia
Organization: ANGKASA
selected on January 9, 2006
retired on October 21, 2007

Faiz bin Khaleed (born September 15, 1980 in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia ) is a Malaysian dentist and former astronaut aspirant .

He studied dentistry at St. John's Institution in Kuala Lumpur. Faiz Khaleed is employed as a dentist in the Malaysian Air Force and was promoted to major on October 22, 2007.

On September 9, 2006, he was selected for the Soyuz TMA-11 crew as part of the Angkasawan space program. Together with the later first Malaysian spaceman, the doctor Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor , he began his cosmonaut training in October 2006.

The primary and backup crew of the Soyuz TMA-11 mission with Faiz Khaleed on the right.

Faiz could still do a space flight if Malaysia decides to do another space flight.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ RIA Novosti: Malaysia names the country's first cosmonaut and his double
  2. ^ RIA Novosti: Space training: Russian for the first cosmonaut from Malaysia
  3. ^ Malaysia to launch second space mission. Accessed May 1, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Faiz Khaleed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faiz bin Khaleed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Malaysian spaceman candidate
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuala Lumpur