Salishan Shakirovich Sharipov

Salishan Sharipov
Country:	Russia
Organization:	Roscosmos
selected on	May 11, 1990
Calls:	2 space flights
Start of the first space flight:	January 23, 1998
Landing of the last space flight:	April 24, 2005
Time in space:	201d 14h 50min
EVA inserts:	2
EVA total duration:	9h 58min
retired on	July 18, 2008
Space flights
STS-89 (1998) Soyuz TMA-5 (2004/2005) ISS expedition 10

Salischan Schakirovič Sharipov ( Russian Салижан Шакирович Шарипов , scientific transliteration Saližan Šakirovič Šaripov ; born August 24, 1964 in Ösgön , Osch Oblast , Kyrgyz SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian cosmon .

Sharipov attended the Higher Military Aviation School "Sergei Gretsevets" in Kharkiv , which he graduated in 1987 with a diploma in tactical aerial combat. He then worked as a pilot instructor.

In May 1990 he was accepted into the Soviet cosmonaut program as a test cosmonaut and took part in two space flights:

• 23–31 January 1998, as a "mission specialist" with the STS-89
• October 14, 2004 - April 24, 2005, as a flight engineer with the Soyuz TMA-5 and the ISS-10

From October 2005 to May 2006, Sharipov served as Director of Operations for the Russian Space Agency at the Johnson Space Center in Houston . On July 18, 2008, he retired from the program.

He and his wife Nadezhda have two children.

Web links

Commons : Salishan Sharipov  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography of Salischan Schakirowitsch Scharipow at spacefacts.de
• Biography of Salischan Shakirowitsch Sharipov in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
• Biography of Salischan Shakirowitsch Sharipov at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Russian)