SHARIPOV Salizhan Shakirovich

Astronaut Russia. Born August 24, 1964 in the town of Uzgen, Osh oblast of the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic (now the Republic of Kyrgyzstan). In 1982 he graduated from high school in the town of Uzgen and entered the Military Aviation School. After graduating from college in 1987, worked as an instructor pilot. During work taught to fly 8 x Cadets. Mastered flying MiG-21 and L-39. Has about 950 total flight hours. In 1990 he was enrolled in the detachment of Soviet cosmonauts (1990 Group of the Air Force? 10).

It has been fully trained to fly on spacecraft of the Soyuz TM "and orbital station" Mir ". Since 1992, the group trained for space flight as commander of Soyuz TM. Without a job in the Cosmonaut Training Center Gagarin, in 1994, graduated from Moscow State University, "Cartography". Summer of 1997 arrived in the United States to prepare for a flight aboard the shuttle system, "Space Shuttle". From 23 to 31 January 1998 together with the American astronauts Terrence WILCUTT, . Joe EDWARDS, . Bonnie DUNBAR, . Michael ANDERSON, . James REILLY, . Andrew THOMAS flew into space as a specialist on work with a payload on a spacecraft "Endeavour" (STS-89),
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Within five days he worked on board the Mir orbital complex together with Russia's cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov and American astronaut David WOLF. Length of stay in space was 8 days 19 hours 48 minutes 4 seconds. Salizhan Sharipov planned to participate in the work on board the International Space Station in 1999 - 2003 years.

Married, wife - Hope Mavlanovna Sharipov. They have a son and daughter.

He is fond of football, loves to read.