In the history of technology, Toktar Aubakirov is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Toktar Aubakirov as Soviet cosmonaut.
Toktar Aubakirov was born at Karkaraly District in 1946. His recorded nationality is the Soviet Union. He was educated at Moscow Aviation Institute and Fedotov Test Pilot School.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as aircraft pilot, astronaut and politician.
Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
His work was formally recognised with the Order of Lenin, Hero of the Soviet Union and Order of the October Revolution.
That the work was done from the Soviet Union matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Toktar Aubakirov is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Educated at Moscow Aviation Institute and Fedotov Test Pilot School
- Worked as aircraft pilot, astronaut and politician
