Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
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Biography
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Al Masrie bin Sheikh Mustapha was born on July 27, 1972. He is a Malaysian orthopaedic surgeon and was the first Malaysian to go into space. He was launched to the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-11 with the Expedition 16 crew on October 10, 2007.Sheikh Muszaphar flew under an agreement with Russia through the Angkasawan program, and returned to Earth on October 21, 2007, aboard Soyuz TMA-10 with the Expedition 15 crew members, Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov.
Career
Sheikh Muszaphar was born in Kuala Lumpur and attended high school at Maktab Rendah Sains, MARA in Muar. He is the son of homeroom Ustaz Muhaidin. He then earned a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India. Sheikh Muszaphar is a medical officer, and a university medical officer in medicine at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. In 1998, Sheikh Muszaphar worked at Hospital Seremban. Followed by a move to Kuala Lumpur General Hospital in 1999. He was on staff at Hospital Selayang from 2000 through 2001. Sheikh Muszaphar is also a part-time model.| # | Country | Name | Flight | Date (UTC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | ||||
| 1 |  Soviet Union | Yuri Gagarin | Vostok 1 | 12 April 1961 |
| 2 |  United States | Alan Shepard | MR-3 | 5 May 1961 |
| 1970s | ||||
| 3 |  Czechoslovakia | Vladimír Remek | Soyuz 28 | 2 March 1978 |
| 4 |  Poland | Mirosław Hermaszewski | Soyuz 30 | 27 June 1978 |
| 5 |  East Germany | Sigmund Jähn | Soyuz 31 | 26 August 1978 |
| 6 |  Bulgaria | Georgi Ivanov | Soyuz 33 | 10 April 1979 |
| 1980s | ||||
| 7 |  Hungary | Bertalan Farkas | Soyuz 36 | 26 May 1980 |
| 8 |  Vietnam | Phạm Tuân | Soyuz 37 | 23 July 1980 |
| 9 |  Cuba | Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez |  Soyuz 38 | 18 September 1980 |
| 10 |  Mongolia | Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa | Soyuz 39 | 22 March 1981 |
| 11 |  Romania | Dumitru Prunariu | Soyuz 40 | 14 May 1981 |
| 12 |  France | Jean-Loup Chrétien | Soyuz T-6 | 24 June 1982 |
| 13 |  West Germany | Ulf Merbold | STS-9 | 28 November 1983 |
| 14 |  India | Rakesh Sharma | Soyuz T-11 | 3 April 1984 |
| 15 |  Canada | Marc Garneau | STS-41-G | 5 October 1984 |
| 16 |  Saudi Arabia | Sultan al-Saud | STS-51-G | 17 June 1985 |
| 17 |  Netherlands | Wubbo Ockels | STS-61-A | 30 October 1985 |
| 18 |  Mexico | Rodolfo Neri Vela | STS-61-B | 26 November 1985 |
| 19 |  Syria | Muhammed Faris | Soyuz TM-3 | 22 July 1987 |
| 20 |  Afghanistan | Abdul Ahad Mohmand | Soyuz TM-6 | 29 August 1988 |
| 1990s | ||||
| 21 |  Japan | Toyohiro Akiyama | Soyuz TM-11 | 2 December 1990 |
| 22 |  United Kingdom | Helen Sharman | Soyuz TM-12 | 18 May 1991 |
| 23 |  Austria | Franz Viehböck | Soyuz TM-13 | 2 October 1991 |
| 24 |  Russia | Aleksandr Kaleri Aleksandr Viktorenko | Soyuz TM-14 | 17 March 1992 |
| 25 |  Belgium | Dirk Frimout | STS-45 | 24 March 1992 |
| 26 |  Italy | Franco Malerba | STS-46 | 31 July 1992 |
| 27 |  Switzerland | Claude Nicollier | STS-46 | 31 July 1992 |
| 28 |  Ukraine | Leonid Kadenyuk | STS-87 | 19 November 1997 |
| 29 |  Spain | Pedro Duque | STS-95 | 29 October 1998 |
| 30 |  Slovakia | Ivan Bella |  Soyuz TM-29 | 20 February 1999 |
| 2000s | ||||
| 31 |  South Africa | Mark Shuttleworth | Soyuz TM-34 | 25 April 2002 |
| 32 |  Israel | Ilan Ramon | STS-107 | 16 January 2003 |
| 33 |  China | Yang Liwei | Shenzhou 5 | 15 October 2003 |
| 34 |  Brazil | Marcos Pontes | Soyuz TMA-8 | 30 March 2006 |
| 35 |  Iran | Anousheh Ansari | Soyuz TMA-9 | 18 September 2006 |
| 36 |  Sweden | Christer Fuglesang | STS-116 | 10 December 2006 |
| 37 |  Malaysia | Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor | Soyuz TMA-11 | 10 October 2007 |
| 38 |  South Korea | Yi So-yeon | Soyuz TMA-12 | 8 April 2008 |
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