KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Angkasawan Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Sheikh Mustapha and Major Dr Faiz Khaleed have been commissioned as cosmonauts by the Russian government.
The commissioning was done by Roskosmos (Russian National Space Agency) chairman Anatoly Perminov, at Star City near Moscow, Russia, at 4pm Russian time (8pm in Malaysia) on Thursday.
Science, Technology and Innovations Ministry secretary-general Datuk Abdul Hanan Alang Endut and National Space Programme director Colonel Dr Zulkeffeli Mat Jusoh were present at the ceremony.
Dr Zulkeffeli said that the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) through its representative at the commissioning ceremony, also recognised the duo as astronauts.
On Oct 10, Dr Sheikh Muszaphar together Russian flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko and commander Peggy Wilson from the United States took off in a Soyuz TMA11 spacecraft to the International Space Station.
He returned to Earth on Oct 21. – Bernama
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