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Gurragcha Jugderdemidiin Mongolian Pilot Cosmonaut. Born 5 December 1947. First Mongolian astronaut.

Personal: Male, Married, One child. Born in Gurvan-Bulak, Mongolia. Mongolian Air Force Graduated from Zhukovsky Military Engineering Academy, 1977 Mongolian Air Force. Aeronautic engineer, Mongolian Air Force.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Intercosmos Group - 1978. Inactive Entered space service: 1 March 1978. Left space service: 30 March 1981. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 7.86 days.

Deputy Chief of Central Board of Defense. Later chief of a scientific institute in Ulan Bator. From 2000 Mongolian Secretary of Defense.

Gurragcha Spaceflight Log

  • 22 March 1981 Flight: Salyut 6 EP-9. Flight Up: Soyuz 39. Flight Back: Soyuz 39. Flight Time: 7.86 days.
Gurragcha Chronology

1 March 1978 - Intercosmos Cosmonaut Training Group selected.. Training group of potential 'guest cosmonauts' for propaganda flights to the Salyut space station. The 'guests', from states allied to the Soviet Union, would be flown on Soyuz lifeboat changeout missions to the station.

22 March 1981 - Soyuz 39. Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Transported to the Salyut-6 orbital station the eighth international crew under the INTERCOSMOS programme, comprising V A Dzhanibekov (USSR) and Z. Gurragchi (Mongolian People's Republic) to conduct scientific investigations and experiments.
30 March 1981 - Landing of Soyuz 39. Soyuz 39 landed at 11:41 GMT.
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