{"id":23377,"date":"2025-09-18T08:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/23377\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T08:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:08:10","slug":"meet-toktar-aubakirov-kazakhstans-first-cosmonaut-who-brought-his-nation-into-space-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/23377\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Toktar Aubakirov, Kazakhstan\u2019s first cosmonaut who brought his nation into space history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  By&amp;nbspTomiris Bilyal\n<\/p>\n<p>\n                    Published on                 17\/09\/2025 &#8211; 15:00 GMT+2<br \/>\n                \u2022Updated<br \/>\n                                     15:17\n                                        <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>In October 1991, Toktar Aubakirov became Kazakhstan\u2019s first cosmonaut, flying under the newly created \u201cKazakhstan Garysh\u201d space programme. A former test pilot who pioneered record-breaking flights with MiG-29 and MiG-31 jets, he was chosen by the first President Nursultan Nazarbayev to represent the nation in orbit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aubakirov spent eight days in space, conducting groundbreaking medical experiments, including the first blood samples taken during launch and landing. \u201cI fulfilled the mission my people had been waiting for,\u201d he recalls, describing the overwhelming pride that greeted his return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&amp;nbspTomiris Bilyal Published on 17\/09\/2025 &#8211; 15:00 GMT+2 \u2022Updated 15:17 ADVERTISEMENT In October 1991, Toktar Aubakirov became Kazakhstan\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1154,85,46,17471,141,145,21329],"class_list":{"0":"post-23377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-kazakhstan","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space","14":"tag-space-mission"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}