Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
Born:
1972
Place: Kuala
Lumpur,
Malaysia
Known for:
The
first Malaysian and South-east Asian astronaut to
orbit the Earth.
The spacecraft that took him to space was the Russian
Soyuz TMA-11.
It was launched from the Kazakhstan's Baikonur
space
centre.
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor