The flight of the first Kazakh cosmonaut marked the beginning of the rise of domestic space science

October 2, 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the first Kazakh cosmonaut Toktar Aubakirov's flight into space.

Toktar Aubakirov conducted five space research in orbit with the participation of five institutes Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR in the field of space medicine and biotechnology, materials science, remote sensing of the Earth.

On October 10, 1991, Hero of the Soviet Union, Honored Test Pilot of the USSR, the first Kazakh cosmonaut Toktar Aubakirov, who successfully performed at the station Mir, the first Kazakh space program developed by domestic scientists, returned safely to Earth together with Austrian cosmonaut Franz Fiebeck and spacecraft commander, Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Artsebarsky.

According to Kazakh scientists, it was from the flight of our cosmonauts to the orbital complex " Mir "and the International Space Station in Kazakhstan began on a real rise in the development of space science.

New results were obtained, which became the basis for the development of new scientific directions in the country, including: space materials science and instrument making, space geophysical and natural resource monitoring, space biomedicine and biotechnology. As you know, the Republic of Kazakhstan is one of the few countries with three or more cosmonauts. From 1991 to 2001, five national space programs were carried out in orbit: Toktar Aubakirov (1991), Talgat Musabayev (1994, 1998, 2001), Aidyn Aimbetov (2015).