Key facts
- Appointed by
- Nursultan Nazarbayev
- Born
- ( 1951-01-07 ) 7 January 1951 , Kargaly, Zhambyl District , Almaty Region , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union
- Died
- 4 August 2025 (2025-08-04) (aged 74)
- Party
- Amanat (2007–2025)
- Occupation
- Test pilot
- Current occupation
- Director of Aerospace Agency of Republic of Kazakhstan
- Time in space
- 341d 9h 48m
- Selection
- 11 May 1990
- Total eva time
- 41 hours, 13 minutes
- Missions
- Mir EO-16 ( Soyuz TM-19 ), Mir EO-25 ( Soyuz TM-27 ), ISS EP-1 ( Soyuz TM-32 / Soyuz TM-31 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kazakhstan
- Place of birth
- Qarğalı
- Place of death
- Almaty
- Occupation
- engineer
- Educated at
- Ulyanovsk Higher Civil Aviation School
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Image
- Talğat Musabaev (2022).jpg
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- Commons category
- Talgat Musabayev
- date of birth
- 1951-01-07
- name in native language
- Талғат Аманкелдіұлы Мұсабаев
- allegiance
- Russia
- time in space
- 491628
- P10632
- Talgat Musabayev
- date of death
- 2025-08-03
- member of the crew of
- Soyuz TM-31
- P450
- Soyuz TM-31
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Encyclopedic overview
Talğat Amankeldıūly Mūsabaev (Kazakh: Талғат Аманкелдіұлы Мұсабаев; 7 January 1951 – 4 August 2025) was a Soviet-Russian test pilot and cosmonaut and Kazakh politician who flew on three spaceflights. Musabayev's first two spaceflights were long-duration stays aboard the Russian space station Mir. His third spaceflight was a short-duration visiting mission to the International Space Station, which also carried the first paying space tourist Dennis Tito. He retired as a cosmonaut in November 2003. Beginning in 2007 he was head of KazCosmos, Kazakhstan's National Space Agency.
Early career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Talgat Musabayev” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.