The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Azerbaijan
This page contains a list of the greatest Azerbaijani Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 524 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Azerbaijan. This makes Azerbaijan the birth place of the 31st most number of Astronauts behind Syria and Hungary.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Azerbaijani Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Azerbaijani Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Musa Manarov (1951 - )
With an HPI of 49.75, Musa Manarov is the most famous Azerbaijani Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 29 different languages on wikipedia.
Musa Khiramanovich Manarov (Russian: Муса Хираманович Манаров; born 22 March 1951) is the first Azerbaijani cosmonaut who spent 541 days in space. 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. 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, the longest continuous time spent in space by anyone then. During his 176-day stay, Manarov observed the Earth and worked in space manufacturing. He also performed more than 20 hours of spacewalks. 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.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronauts born between 1951 and 1951. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living astronauts include Musa Manarov.
