Meet Toktar Aubakirov, Kazakhstan’s first cosmonaut who brought his nation into space history
Kazakhstan’s first cosmonaut, Toktar Aubakirov, recalls his historic 1991 spaceflight and the pride it sparked across his nation.
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00:27And the sailors knew that we could fall under the wheels or the wheels.
00:32And so that they didn't happen,
00:34they immediately said,
00:35we need the officers,
00:37and we'll be able to get them.
00:39I thought, no one didn't fly.
00:41But they didn't fly like this.
00:43They said, now you are the sailors.
00:45And since this moment,
00:47I was 5 years old,
00:49I became a sailor.
00:517th grade I finished,
00:53there was no school.
00:54I left to Timmertal.
00:56I started working.
00:58I wanted to become a sailor.
01:01I went to school in the evening.
01:03Then I realized,
01:05that I could not be able to get them.
01:07And when I told him,
01:09I told him to help him to work,
01:12he didn't take care of me.
01:14I went to the military,
01:16I said to the military,
01:18I said to the military,
01:19I can't go anywhere.
01:21My mother has to do it.
01:23I need to do it.
01:25He's going to go to the office.
01:27He's going to go to the office.
01:29If it's an special case,
01:31you can write the report and give him a passport.
01:33I got a passport thanks to these two men.
01:37I went to the field of the field of the field of the field.
01:40I got a doctor.
01:42I worked for three years.
01:45They were invited to the office.
01:47I said, can you send me to the office?
01:53When I was 18 years old,
01:55I was already flying on the plane.
01:58I was 18 years old.
01:59My job was easy.
02:01I was given the name of the best pilot of the Middle East.
02:05This wasn't enough.
02:07I wanted more.
02:09I wanted to be a survivor.
02:11And I had to go to the first secretary of the party of Kazakhstan.
02:16I wrote a letter to the office.
02:18I was writing a letter to the office.
02:19He took the letter to the office and sent it to the office.
02:21He went to the office in Moscow.
02:24And he said, what is it?
02:26One Kazakh, a sailor, a sailor.
02:28And you don't give him the best,
02:30to be he was a sailor.
02:32And I went to a sailor.
02:33There was a flight on the plane.
02:35Meath 2000,
02:36I've once started the plane.
02:37Seeming in the next plane.
02:38There were a flight.
02:40And then the plane plane.
02:41And the plane plane was set to the plane.
02:42Then the plane plane was set to the plane.
02:43MiG-31 was the first pilot in the air in the air.
02:48The pilot got an endless length.
02:52MiG-29 was the first pilot in the world on the plane.
02:57This is a book of records of Genesis.
03:00The pilot was the first pilot in the air.
03:30The pilot was the first pilot in the air.
04:00The pilot was the first pilot.
04:06The pilot was the first pilot.
04:10I was very proud to be in my military profession, who I wanted to be all my life, but I don't regret it. I completed my mission, which I was waiting for my people.
04:19I didn't understand this until I returned to Kazakhstan, I saw how people meet. We drove in the car to Turkestan.
04:28Представляете, вся дорога была забита людьми. И я тогда только понял, как наш народ очень гордый Степня перенес то, что 30 лет не посылали в космос ее представителя.
04:41И я увидел, как тогда народ поднял голову. Да, будут еще космонавты, много будет еще, но этого ликования никогда не будет.
04:50Это бывает один раз, и больше оно не возвращается. Поэтому я самый счастливый человек.
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