Editing Talgat Musabayev (section)

==Cosmonaut career==
Musabayev was selected to be a cosmonaut on 11 May 1990.<ref name=SF-bio/>

===Mir EO-16===
His first spaceflight was as a crew member of the long-duration mission Mir EO-16, which was launched and landed by the spacecraft [[Soyuz TM-19]]. Musabayev was designated Flight Engineer; the mission lasted from 1 July 1994 to 4 November 1994, for a total duration of 125 days 22 hours 53 minutes.<ref name=SF-bio/>

===Mir EO-25===
His second spaceflight was as Commander of another long-duration expedition called Mir EO-25, which was launched by the spacecraft [[Soyuz TM-27]]. The mission lasted from 29 January 1998 to 25 August 25, 1998.

===ISS EP-1===
His third mission was as Commander of [[ISS EP-1]], which was a visiting mission to the [[International Space Station]]. It was launched by [[Soyuz TM-32]], and was landed by [[Soyuz TM-31]] on 6 May 2001, for a total duration of 7 days 22 hours 4 minutes.<ref name=SF-bio/> This visiting mission was notable for carrying the first ever paying [[space tourism|space tourist]] [[Dennis Tito]].

{{As of|2007}}, he was among the [[Spaceflight records#Total time in space|top 30 cosmonauts by time in space]].