Thursday, January 8, 2009

National Angkasawan Programme

The Angkasawan Programme is the Malaysian National programme to send the first Malaysian to space.

The Malaysian will join two other cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz space craft that will rendezvous with the International Space Station, which is in orbit around the Earth at an altitude of approximately 360 km. The Angkasawan will carry out scientific researches on board the space station.

Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor was born on July 27, 1972 is a malaysian medical doctor and he is the first Malaysian to go into space when he was launched to aboard Soyuz TMA - 11 on October 10, 2007. He was flying as a spaceflight participant under an agreement with Russia through the Angkasawan program, and returned to Earth with the Expedition 15 crew members, Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg kotov after nine days aboard the station.

Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor was born from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and attended high school at Maktab Rendah Sains MARA in Muar. He then went on to obtain a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. He is an orthopedic physhician and a university lecturer in medicine at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. In 1998, Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor worked at Hospital Seremban, followed by a move to Kuala Lumpur general Hospital in 1999 and was on staff at Hospital Selayang from 2000 through 2001. He is also a part - time model.

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