Musa Manarov

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{{Infobox astronaut | image = U2mir musa manarov.jpg | name = Musa Manarov | native_name = {{nobold|Муса Манаров}} | type = Cosmonaut | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1951|03|22}} | birth_place = Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union (now Azerbaijan) | occupation = Flight engineer | status = Retired | rank = Colonel, Soviet Air Force | selection = 1978 Cosmonaut Group | evas = 7 (3 during Mir EO-3, 4 during Mir Eo-8) | time = 541d 00h 28m | mission = {{nobr|Mir EO-3 (Soyuz TM-4 / Soyuz TM-6),}} {{nobr|Mir EO-8 (Soyuz TM-11)}} | eva_time = 34h, 32m | insignia = | awards = * Hero of the Soviet Union * Order of Lenin * Order of the October Revolution * {{nobr|Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"}} | module = {{Listen|pos=center|embed=yes|filename=Musa Manarov voice.oga|title=Musa Manarov's voice|type=speech|description=Recorded 12 April 2011}} }} '''Musa Khiramanovich Manarov''' ({{langx|ru|Муса Хираманович Манаров}}; {{Langx|lbe|Муса Хираманнул арс Маннаров}}; born 22 March 1951) is a former Soviet cosmonaut who spent 541 days in space.<ref name="manarov">[http://www.lobbying.ru/content/persons/id_3249_linkid_173.html 5-й созыв (2008-2011)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229044034/http://www.lobbying.ru/content/persons/id_3249_linkid_173.html |date=2014-12-29 }} {{in lang|ru}}</ref>

He was a colonel in the Soviet Air Force and graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute with an engineering qualification in 1974. Musa was selected as a cosmonaut on 1 December 1978.<ref name="manarov"/>

From 21 December 1987 to 21 December 1988, he flew as flight engineer on Soyuz TM-4. The flight duration was 365 days, 22 hours, and 38 minutes. From 2 December 1990 to 26 May 1991, he flew again as a flight engineer on Soyuz TM-11. The duration was 175 days, 1 hour, and 50 minutes,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/manarov_musa.htm |title=Musa Khiramanovich|website=spacefacts.de|access-date=11 March 2023}}</ref> 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 more than 20 hours of spacewalks.<ref>{{cite web|website=spacefacts.de|url=http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/soyuz-tm11.htm|title=Soyuz TM-11|access-date=11 March 2023}}</ref> Manarov lives in Russia.

He was a member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 5th convocation (2007–2011) as part of the United Russia faction.

==Personal life== Manarov is married and has two children. He is an ethnic Lak.<ref>[http://www.1news.az/interview/20090423032039077.html Interview 1news.az] {{in lang|ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=894|title = Манаров Муса Хираманович}}</ref> He lives in Moscow, while his mother still lives in Baku.

==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)

==See also== *List of Muslim astronauts

==References== {{Reflist}}

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