Talghat Mussabaev

Talghat Mussabaev
Country:	USSR / Russia / Kazakhstan
selected on	May 11, 1990
Calls:	3 space flights
Start of the first space flight:	July 1, 1994
Landing of the last space flight:	May 6, 2001
Time in space:	341d 9h 48min
EVA inserts:	7th
EVA total duration:	41h 13min
retired on	November 27, 2003
Space flights
Soyuz TM-19 (1994) Me EO-16 Soyuz TM-27 (1998) Me EO-25 Soyuz TM-32 / Soyuz TM-31 (2001)

Talgat Musabayev Amankeldiuly ( Kazakh -kyrillisch Талғат Аманкелдіұлы Мұсабаев , Russian Талгат Амангельдиевич Мусабаев * 7. January 1951 in Qarghaly , Kazakh SSR ) is a former Kazakh cosmonaut .

Space flights

Mussabaev was flight engineer on Soyuz TM-19 flight in 1994 and commander of Soyuz TM-27 flight in 1998.

He was also the Soyuz commander in the space flight of the first space tourist Dennis Tito . On April 28, 2001, he took off for the International Space Station with Soyuz TM-32 . Two days later, on April 30, the spacecraft docked at the station at 7:59 a.m. UTC. After almost 6 working days, Mussabaev and his two colleagues landed with Soyuz TM-31 on May 6, 2001 in the Kazakh steppe.

Summary

No.	mission	function	Function on ward	Flight period	Flight duration
1	Soyuz TM-19	Flight engineer	Flight engineer	01.07. - 04.11.1994	125d 22h 53m
2	Soyuz TM-27	commander	commander	29.01. - 08/25/1998	207d 12h 51m
3	Soyuz TM-32 / 31	commander	Flight engineer	04/28 - 05/06/2001	7d 22h 04m

After the astronaut work

Since March 2007 he has been director of Kazakhstan's National Space Agency KazCosmos . On January 20, 2016, he was also appointed Advisor to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan with a term until December 31, 2017. Mussabaev is Lieutenant General in the Kazakh Air Force and Major General in the Russian Air Force.

Private

Mussabaev is married and has two children.

See also

• List of spacemen

Web links

Commons : Talghat Mussabaev  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• spacefacts.de: biography