Talgat Musabayev

Kazakh cosmonaut · Russia · On the map · Astronauts · Lived 1951 to 2025 · aged 74

Talğat Amankeldıūly Mūsabaev 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.

Talgat Musabayev is read about 95 times a day, in 34 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.

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Musabayev on a 2015 stamp of Kazakhstan

Awards

Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation1994

Hero of the Russian Federation

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class

Order of Friendship of Peoples

Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"

Hero of the Kazakhstan

Order of Fatherland

Order of Nazarbayev

Order of the Leopard

Astana Medal

Medal "10 years of Astana"

NASA Space Flight Medal

Pilot-Cosmonaut of Kazakhstan

Medal "for 20 Years of Kazakhstan's independence"

Medal for the 20th anniversary of the Constitution of Kazakhstan

Medal for Military Valour

Officer of the Legion of Honour

Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria

Order of the Leopard 1st class

Medal "For Military Valour", 1st class

About this person

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.

Country

Russia