Education
He was a colonel at the Soviet Air Force and graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute with an engineering diploma in 1974.
He was a colonel at the Soviet Air Force and graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute with an engineering diploma in 1974.
Musa was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978. From December 21, 1987 to December 21, 1988 he flew as flight engineer on Soyuz TM-4. The duration was 365 days 22 hours 38 minutes.
From December 2, 1990 to May 26, 1991 he flew again as a flight engineer on Soyuz TM-11.
The duration was 175 days 1 hour 50 minutes, the longest continuous time spent in space by anyone at that time. During his 176-day stay, Manarov observed the Earth and worked in space manufacturing.
He also performed 20 hours of spacewalks. Manarov currently lives in Russia.
Hero of the Soviet Union Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Order of Lenin Order of the October Revolution Medal "Foreign Merit in Space Exploration" Foreign awards: Officer of the Legion of Honour (France) Order of Stara Planina (Republic of Bulgaria) Order of Georgi Dimitrov (Republic of Bulgaria) Order "The Sun of Freedom" (Afghanistan).
