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<blockquote data-quote="funfer_fahrer" data-source="post: 235984" data-attributes="member: 2733"><p>Our Doc. Sheikh's <strong>status</strong> on board the Russian soyuz is a spacefflight participant. Peggy's <strong>status</strong> is a commander, and Yuri's <strong>status</strong> is the flight engineer. On board a NASA space shuttle there is no such thing as a participant, only a commander, a pilot and mission specialists and loading specialists. The lowest rank is the loading specialist. Sheikh might become a loading specialist should he joined STS mission. By NASA standards, all three of them (Peggy, Yuri and Sheikh) are astronauts. Even if a person completes the training to become an astronaut. Doesn't matter whether he or she has been to space or not. On the other hand, by Russian standards, only Peggy and Yuri are cosmonauts because they both have been into space and came back safely. Once Sheikh is back to earth, only then he will certified as a cosmonaut. (If he was trained by NASA, he will be called an astronaut upon the completion of his training. He doesn't need to go for the launch to enjoy this status). Russian standards are much higher.</p><p> Furthermore, we Malaysians do not have an "astronaut corps" or joined any astronaut corps. If Sheikh joined the Russian astronaut (cosmonaut) corps specific to that particular mission his status or rank would have been a <strong>science officer. </strong>At the moment his status is the same as Dennis Tito and Mike Shuttleworth, that is <strong>spaceflight participant</strong>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="funfer_fahrer, post: 235984, member: 2733"] Our Doc. Sheikh's [B]status[/B] on board the Russian soyuz is a spacefflight participant. Peggy's [B]status[/B] is a commander, and Yuri's [B]status[/B] is the flight engineer. On board a NASA space shuttle there is no such thing as a participant, only a commander, a pilot and mission specialists and loading specialists. The lowest rank is the loading specialist. Sheikh might become a loading specialist should he joined STS mission. By NASA standards, all three of them (Peggy, Yuri and Sheikh) are astronauts. Even if a person completes the training to become an astronaut. Doesn't matter whether he or she has been to space or not. On the other hand, by Russian standards, only Peggy and Yuri are cosmonauts because they both have been into space and came back safely. Once Sheikh is back to earth, only then he will certified as a cosmonaut. (If he was trained by NASA, he will be called an astronaut upon the completion of his training. He doesn't need to go for the launch to enjoy this status). Russian standards are much higher. Furthermore, we Malaysians do not have an "astronaut corps" or joined any astronaut corps. If Sheikh joined the Russian astronaut (cosmonaut) corps specific to that particular mission his status or rank would have been a [B]science officer. [/B]At the moment his status is the same as Dennis Tito and Mike Shuttleworth, that is [B]spaceflight participant[/B]. [/QUOTE]
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