Lak-Soviet engineer and cosmonaut

Musa Khiramanovich Manarov (Lak: Муса Хираманович Манаров; born March 22, 1951, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) is a former cosmonaut who spent 541 days in space.

He was a colonel in the Soviet Air Force and graduated from the Moscow Aviation Ins*ute with an engineering qualification in 1974. Musa was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978.

From December 21, 1987, to December 21, 1988, he flew as flight engineer on Soyuz TM-4. The flight duration was 365 days 22 hours 38 minutes. From December 2, 1990, to May 26, 1991, he flew again as a flight engineer on Soyuz TM-11. The duration was 175 days 1 hour 50 minutes, the longest continuous time spent in space by anyone at that time. During his 176-day stay, Manarov observed the Earth and worked in space manufacturing. He also performed 20 hours of spacewalks. Manarov lives in Russia.

Contents

• 1 Awards and honors
• 2 Personal life
• 3 See also
• 4 References

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)

Personal life

Manarov is married with two children. He is an ethnic Lak. He lives in Moscow, while his mother still lives in Baku.

See also

• List of Muslim astronauts

References