Sheikh muszaphar shukor biography of michael
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A Russian rocket carrying Malaysia's first astronaut and the first female commander of the International Space Station blasted off on a Soyuz rocket on Wednesday from Baikonur.
The rocket carrying Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Russian cosmonaut Yury Malenchenko and NASA's Peggy Whitson thrust into a clear evening sky over the Kazakh steppe, its fiery engines emitting a thunderous roar as it set out on a two-day voyage to the orbiting station.
Ascending at huge speed, the Soyuz took just minutes to reach its initial orbit and, having shed its empty fuel tanks and an outer casing protecting the crew, was to spend two days reaching the International Space Station (ISS).
At a pre-launch news conference a member of the Baikonur ground crew jokingly presented Whitson with an ornate Kazakh riding whip "so that in the presence of men they understand that you're the commander."
Whitson, a 47-year-old biochemist, is to oversee major expansion of the ISS and the setting up of a new sci
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KUALA LUMPUR: Young Malaysians have been urged to explore new possibilities and follow their dreams, just like what American astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, and Malaysia’s own ‘angkasawan’ Datuk Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor did.
In making the call, United States’ (US) envoy Datuk Paul W Jones noted that Armstrong may well be an American, but his achievement and that of his Apollo 11 colleagues Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, belonged to the world.
“Mr Armstrong and his fellow astronauts have redefined our conceptions of time and space, of distance and perspective, of the moon, this universe, and our place in it,” he said at the launch of a photo exhibition on Armstrong here yesterday.
Jones said that most of all, the US space programme had given a new perspective and a greater appreciation for the planet humans lived on and shared together.
“With this greater understanding, comes a recognition of our responsibility as world citizens in a global community to f
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Research means the encroachment into virgin soil. Wishes are packed in thoughts, goals are set and the painful works start to get answers. The Austrian Space Forum gave me the chance to push the experimental part of research forward into the field of literary-philosophical mind games as well this Christmas. The following skrivelse should serve as an “philosophical-psychological kaleidoscope”. Maybe it opens some doors into the inre of the researcher, who has to fight for the konvertering of his/her dreams everyday.
“The whole life long you should watch the world through the eyes of a child.” (Henri Matisse, painter, 1869-1954)
Once upon a time there was an astronaut. He floated in his mother ship, in a confined world. All around him, it was humming, buzzing, creaking. Ethereal voices approached him. He wanted to answer, but no one could hear him. How he came to be there, he didn’t know. How long his journey would take, he didn’t know. Th