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Astronauts, Cosmonauts, people who have venture to the unknown territory of space. Now we have our own, The Angkasawan.

The "Angkasawan" Program is the Malaysian national program to send the first Malaysian to space. The Malaysian will join two other cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz space craft that will rendezvous with the International Space Station, which is in orbit around the Earth at an altitude of approximately 360 km. The "Angkasawan" will carry out scientific researches on board the space station.

Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor is the first Malaysian to sent to space after 3 years of screening out of 10,000 candidates.