Manarov

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Manarov

Musa Khiramanovich Manarov Status: Inactive. Trained as: Cosmonaut. Profession: Engineer. Sex: Male. Marital Status: Married. Children: Two. Birth Date: 22 March 1951. Birth City: Baku. Birth State: Baku. Birth Country: Azerbaijan. Nationality: Russian. Affiliation: Civilian Engineer, Energia NPO. Group: 1978 Civilian Engineer Group. Detachment: NPOE-4. Date Selected: 01 December 1978. Date Departed: 23 July 1992. Number of Flights: 2. Total Time: 541.02 days. Number of EVAs: 7. Total EVA Time: 34.53 hours. Comments: .

Flight Log

Soyuz T-15A - - 1986 Early - Assignment: Proposed Prime Crew.
Final expedition to Salyut 7 station was cancelled when control was lost.
Soyuz TM-4 - - 1987 Dec 21 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 365.94 days. Flight details: Soyuz TM-4.
Mir Expedition EO-03. Carried Musa Manarov, Anatoly Levchenko, Vladimir Titov to Mir; returned crew of Soyuz TM-5 to Earth. Orbits 168 x 243 km, 255 x 296 km, 333 x 359 km. Docked with Mir 12:51 GMT 23 December. 30 December moved to forward port. Undocked 06:18 GMT 17 June 88. Recovered June 17, 1988 10:13 GMT. Landed 202 km from Dzehezkazgan.
EVA Soyuz TM-4-1 - - 1988 Feb 26 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 4.42 hours.
Completed solar array installation. Inspected exterior of station.
EVA Soyuz TM-4-2 - - 1988 Jun 30 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 5.17 hours.
Began repair of TTM telescope.
EVA Soyuz TM-4-3 - - 1988 Oct 20 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 4.20 hours.
Completed repair of TTM telescope. Tested new spacesuit.
Soyuz TM-10 - - 1990 Aug 1 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz TM-10.
Manned two crew. Docked with Mir. Mir Expedition EO-07. Transported to the Mir manned orbital station the crew consisting of the cosmonauts G M Manakov and G M Strekalov for the purpose of carrying out a programme of geophysical and astrophysical research, biological and biotechnological experiments, and work on space-materials science. Recovered December 10, 1990 06:08 GMT. Landed 69 km NW Arkalyk.
Soyuz TM-11 - - 1990 Dec 2 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 175.08 days. Flight details: Soyuz TM-11.
Docked with Mir. Mir Expedition EO-08. Transported to the Mir manned orbital station the international crew consisting of the cosmonauts V M Afanasyev, M Kh Manarov, and T Akiyami (Japan) for the purpose of carrying out joint work with the cosmonauts G M Manakov and G M Strekalov. Launched jointly with the private Japanese company TBS. The Japanese television network ended up paying $ 28 million for the first commercial flight to Mir to put Akiyama, the first journalist in space aboard Soyuz TM-11. Akiyama made daily television broadcasts.
EVA Soyuz TM-11-1 - - 1991 Jan 7 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 5.30 hours.
Completed repair of Kvant 2 hatch.
EVA Soyuz TM-11-2 - - 1991 Jan 23 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 5.55 hours.
Installed Strela boom on Mir.
EVA Soyuz TM-11-3 - - 1991 Jan 26 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 6.33 hours.
Installed solar array supports.
EVA Soyuz TM-11-4 - - 1991 Apr 25 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 3.57 hours.
Inspected Kurs docking system antenna.

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