ABOUT TALGAT MUSABAYEV
Former cosmonaut who went on to head Kazakhstan's National Space Agency, KazCosmos.
He received awards as an aerobatic flyer.
He flew on three spaceflights and visited both the Mir and International Space Stations.
He is from Kargaly, Kazakhstan. He was married and had two children.
He was a Soviet cosmonaut like Yuri Gagarin .
