status birth_place mission nationality article_title birth_date selection rank insignia time name type occupation
'' ` living '' ' tsetserleg , mongolia soyuz 39 -lrb- backup crew -rrb- mongolia mongolian maidarjavyn ganzorig
 5 february 1949 1978 intercosmos group major general 30px none maidarjavyn ganzorig Майдаржавын Ганзориг intercosmos cosmonaut flight engineer
maidarjavyn ganzorig

maidarjavyn ganzorig -lrb- ; born february 5 , 1949 in tsetserleg , mongolia -rrb- is a mongolian scientist .
in 1978 , he participated in the soviet intercosmos program and trained for a soyuz space flight .
ganzorig graduated from the kiev polytechnic institute in 1975 .
in 1978 , he was selected as the backup to jügderdemidiin gürragchaa for the soyuz 39 mission .
in 1984 , he received a candidate of technical sciences degree .
from 1984 to 1991 ganzorig was head of the rs laboratory at the institute of physics and technology , mongolian academy of sciences , and since 1991 has been the director of informatics at the remote sensing center , mongolian academy of sciences , ulaanbaatar .
