KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 10 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi expressed his thanks to former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad for having initiated the "Angkasawan" Programme that culminated in success tonight.
"Thank you to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad," he said at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) where he had followed live the launch of a Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft carrying Malaysian astronaut Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Sheikh Mustapha and two other astronauts from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Dr Mahathir had conceived the programme to send a Malaysian to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2003 with Russian collaboration after Malaysia purchased 18 Russian-made Sukhoi jet fighters for RM3.4 billion.
In a statement today, Dr Mahathir, who is undergoing treatment at the National Heart Institute (IJN) after a coronary bypass operation last month, extended congratulations to Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor.
Abdullah, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and more than 1,000 people, among them Cabinet ministers, gathered at the KLCC to watch the live telecast of the launch.
A thunderous clapping of hands echoed through halls 1 and 2 of the KLCC as the visual of the Soyuz rocket and spacecraft bearing the Malaysian flag appeared on the seven huge screens one minute before lift-off at 9.21 pm.
The audience erupted into shouts of "Malaysiaku Gemilang" (My Glorious Malaysia) upon seeing Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor in the spacecraft after the launch, sporting the Malaysian flag on his left arm of his space suit.
Nine minutes after blast-off, the spacecraft was in orbit. It is scheduled to dock with the ISS on Friday.
-- BERNAMA
"Thank you to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad," he said at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) where he had followed live the launch of a Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft carrying Malaysian astronaut Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Sheikh Mustapha and two other astronauts from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Dr Mahathir had conceived the programme to send a Malaysian to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2003 with Russian collaboration after Malaysia purchased 18 Russian-made Sukhoi jet fighters for RM3.4 billion.
In a statement today, Dr Mahathir, who is undergoing treatment at the National Heart Institute (IJN) after a coronary bypass operation last month, extended congratulations to Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor.
Abdullah, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and more than 1,000 people, among them Cabinet ministers, gathered at the KLCC to watch the live telecast of the launch.
A thunderous clapping of hands echoed through halls 1 and 2 of the KLCC as the visual of the Soyuz rocket and spacecraft bearing the Malaysian flag appeared on the seven huge screens one minute before lift-off at 9.21 pm.
The audience erupted into shouts of "Malaysiaku Gemilang" (My Glorious Malaysia) upon seeing Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor in the spacecraft after the launch, sporting the Malaysian flag on his left arm of his space suit.
Nine minutes after blast-off, the spacecraft was in orbit. It is scheduled to dock with the ISS on Friday.
-- BERNAMA
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