The Expedition 16 crew members pose for a portrait at the Johnson Space Center. From the left (front row) are Russia's Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, flight engineer and Soyuz commander; astronaut Peggy Whitson, commander; and Malaysian spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor. From the left (back row) are European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Léopold Eyharts, astronaut Garrett Reisman and astronaut Dan Tani, all flight engineers. Source : NASAIt's suffice if I say that we do not produced a true astronaut yet, NASA only called our astronaut as Malaysian spaceflight participant, so what that meant? Why NASA call him as spaceflight participant, and at Malaysia, in newspapers or on our mainstream television stations are busy to show an advertisement about we will have an astronaut in next two weeks (assumed our first astronaut will launch on October 10). The truth, its only like a present from Russian company to rejoice of 18 fighter jets, Sukhoi 30-MKM sold to Government of Malaysia, estimated around RM3.4 bilion. Everyone have an oppurtunity to travel to space, if you have a lot of money and good health, physical and mental, at a tag prices of AS 20 millions. A few person were celebrated as spaceflight participants are Dennis Tito ,Mark Shuttleworth , Greg Olsen and Anousheh Ansari.
Anyway, we could wish all the best to our first astronaut, the first citizen of Malaysian who will landing on ISS and hopefully come to earth in full motivations and could draw a new history in next decades, success to launch our own astronout with MAS spaceship to ISS.
As reference, China was successfully sent a man into the first time in 2003, plans to launch its own moon probe before the end of the year, followed by India in the first half of 2008. Japan kick-started the Asian lunar race on September 14, when it successfully launch its first lunar orbiter. While China and India have raised the possibility of a manned lunar mission within the next decade.
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