The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Azerbaijan
This page contains a list of the greatest Azerbaijani Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 556 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 (b. 1951)
With an HPI of 55.42, Musa Manarov is the most famous Azerbaijani Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 32 different languages on wikipedia.
Musa Khiramanovich Manarov (Russian: Муса Хираманович Манаров; born 22 March 1951) is a former Soviet 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 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. 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.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Azerbaijani astronauts born between 1951 and 1951. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Azerbaijani astronauts include Musa Manarov.
