Maidardschavyn Ganzorig

Maidardschavyn Ganzorig
Country:	Mongolian People's Republic
selected on	March 1, 1978
Calls:	0 space flights
retired on	March 30, 1981

Maidardschavyn Ganzorig ( Mongolian Майдаржавын Ганзориг ; born February 5, 1949 in Tsetserleg , Archangai-Aimag , Mongolian People's Republic ) is a Mongolian scientist and former aspiring astronaut . He took part in the Soviet Interkosmos program and trained as a substitute spaceman for the Soyuz 39 space flight .

biography

Ganzorig graduated from high school in 1968 in Tsetserleg and in the same year studied at the Kiev Polytechnic University (today: National Technical University "Kiev Polytechnic Institute Ihor Sikorskyj" ). In 1975 Ganzorig completed his studies there in the field of "automation of technological processes" as a heat measurement technician and automation technician . From 1975 he worked in Ulaanbaatar's first power plant as an automation engineer and stayed until 1978.

He was accepted on March 1, 1978 as a cosmonaut of the Interkosmos program. Dschügderdemidiin Gürrachtschaa flew on March 22, 1981, after which he resigned from the cosmonaut corps after landing. Ganzorig worked at the Space Research Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR from 1981 to 1984 . Since 2014 he has been working as a senior scientist at the Information Center of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences in Ulaanbaatar.

Ganzorig is married and has two children.

honors and awards

• Süchbaatarorden 1981
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor of Mongolia 2001
• Order of Merit for Science of Mongolia 2006
• Honorary title "Hero of Labor of Mongolia" 2011
• Order of Lenin
• Order of Friendship

Web links

• Spacefacts: biography

Mongolian name: As is customary in Mongolia, in this article the patronymic is in the genitive case before the proper name. Thus Maidardschav is the patronymic , Ganzorig the proper name. The person is addressed with their proper name.