Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor | |
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Country: | Malaysia |
Organization: | ANGKASA |
selected on | January 9, 2006 |
Calls: | 1 space flight |
Begin: | October 10, 2007 |
Landing: | October 21, 2007 |
Time in space: | 10d 21h 14min |
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Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor al Masrie bin Sheikh Mustapha (born July 27, 1972 in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia ) is a Malaysian doctor and the first and so far only spaceman in his country.
Muszaphar Shukor studied medicine, specializing in orthopedics , at the Kasturba Medical College (Karnataka) in India and worked in various hospitals in Malaysia.
On September 9, 2006, he was selected for the Soyuz TMA-11 crew as part of the Angkasawan space program. Together with his substitute, the dentist Faiz Khaleed , he began his cosmonaut training in October 2006.
Muszaphar Shukor started on October 10, 2007 together with Yuri Malentschenko and Peggy Whitson for the International Space Station . There the science astronaut carried out experiments on liver cancer , leukemia cells and experiments on the crystallization of proteins and microbes. After eleven days, Shukor returned to Earth with Soyuz TMA-10 .
Web links
- spacefacts.de: Short biography
supporting documents
- ↑ RIA Novosti: Malaysia names the country's first cosmonaut and his double
- ^ RIA Novosti: Space training: Russian for the first cosmonaut from Malaysia
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SURNAME | Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor al Masrie bin Sheikh Mustapha |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Malaysian spaceman |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1972 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kuala Lumpur |