Toktar Aubakirov
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| Nationality | Soviet / Kazakh |
| Born | July 27, 1946 Karaganda, Kazakhstan |
| Occupation1 | Test pilot |
| Rank | Major General, Soviet Air Force |
| Space time | 7d 22h 12m |
| Selection | 1991 cosmonaut Group |
| Mission(s) | Soyuz TM-13 |
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Toktar Ongarbaevich Aubakirov (Kazakh: Тоқтар Онгəрбəевич Әубәкіров, born on July 27, 1946, in Karaganda, Kazakhstan) is a Kazakh military pilot and cosmonaut.
Aubakirov graduated from the Air Force Institute and was a parachutist and test pilot with the rank of Major General in the Kazakh Air Force before he was selected as a cosmonaut.
On October 2, 1991 he started together with the Austrian cosmonaut Franz Viehböck and the Russian cosmonaut Alexander Volkov in Soyuz TM-13 from the Baikonur cosmodrome spaceport, and spent over eight days in space. He was also the first Soviet citizen to go into space without being fully certified as a cosmonaut, as his flight was hurried forward — several commercial international cosmonauts were already booked, but the flight of a Kazakh cosmonaut was part of the Baikonur rental agreement between Kazakhstan and Russia.
Since 1993, he has been the general director of the National Aerospace Agency of Republic of Kazakhstan and a member of Kazakhstan parliament.
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