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Talgat Musabayev

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Talğat Amankeldıūly Mūsabaev (Kazakh: Талғат Аманкелдіұлы Мұсабаев; 7 January 1951 – 4 August 2025) was a Soviet-Russian test pilot and cosmonaut and Kazakh politician who flew on three spaceflights. Musabayev's first two spaceflights were long-duration stays aboard the Russian space station Mir. His third spaceflight was a short-duration visiting mission to the International Space Station, which also carried the first paying space tourist Dennis Tito. He retired as a cosmonaut in November 2003. Beginning in 2007 he was head of KazCosmos, Kazakhstan's National Space Agency.