Musa Manarov
Soviet engineer and cosmonaut (born 1951)
Муса Манаров
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union (now Azerbaijan)
Time in space
Musa Manarov's voice
Recorded 12 April 2011
Musa Khiramanovich Manarov (Russian: Муса Хираманович Манаров; born 22 March 1951) is the first Azerbaijani cosmonaut who spent 541 days in space.[1]
He was a colonel in the Soviet Air Force and graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute with an engineering qualification in 1974. Musa was selected as a cosmonaut on 1 December 1978.[1]
From 21 December 1987 to 21 December 1988, he flew as flight engineer on Soyuz TM-4. The flight duration was 365 days, 22 hours, and 38 minutes. From 2 December 1990 to 26 May 1991, he flew again as a flight engineer on Soyuz TM-11. The duration was 175 days, 1 hour, and 50 minutes,[2] the longest continuous time spent in space by anyone then. During his 176-day stay, Manarov observed the Earth and worked in space manufacturing. He also performed more than 20 hours of spacewalks.[3] Manarov lives in Russia.
He was a member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 5th convocation (2007-2011) as part of the United Russia faction.
Personal life
Manarov is married and has two children. He is an ethnic Lak.[4][5] He lives in Moscow, while his mother still lives in Baku.
Awards and honors
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
- Order of Lenin
- Order of the October Revolution
- Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"
Foreign awards:
- Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)
- Order of Stara Planina (Republic of Bulgaria)
- Order of Georgi Dimitrov (Republic of Bulgaria)
- Order "The Sun of Freedom" (Afghanistan)
See also
References
- ^ a b 5-й созыв (2008-2011) Archived 2014-12-29 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- ^ "Musa Khiramanovich". spacefacts.de. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
- ^ "Soyuz TM-11". spacefacts.de. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
- ^ Interview 1news.az (in Russian)
- ^ "Манаров Муса Хираманович".
External links
Media related to Musa Manarov at Wikimedia Commons
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