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Abdul Ahad Momand (Pashto: عبدالاحد مومند; born 1959) is an Afghan-German and former Afghan Air Force aviator who became the first, and currently only, Afghan astronaut to journey to outer space. [4] He became one of Soyuz TM-6 crew members and spent nine days aboard the Mir space station in 1988 as an Interkosmos research ...
Soyuz TM-6 was a crewed Soyuz spaceflight to Mir. [2] It was launched on 29 August 1988, at 04:23:11 UTC, for the station's third long-duration expedition, Mir EO-3.The three-person crew that was launched consisted of Research Doctor Valeri Polyakov, who became part of the EO-3 crew, as well as the two crew members of the week-long mission Mir EP-3, which included the first ever Afghan ...
Abdul Ahad Mohmand: 91 days Soyuz TM-6: 29 August 1988 Mir EP-3: Vladimir Lyakhov Abdul Mohmand Valeri Polyakov: 21 December 1988 Mir EO-3: Vladimir Titov Musa Manarov Mir Aragatz: Jean-Loup Chrétien: 114 days Soyuz TM-7: 26 November 1988 Mir EO-4: Alexander Volkov Sergei Krikalev Mir Aragatz: Jean-Loup Chrétien: 27 April 1989 Mir EO-4:
Soyuz TM-5 was a crewed Soyuz spaceflight to Mir.It was launched on June 7, 1988, carrying the Mir EP-2 mission's three-person crew. This week-long stay on Mir occurred during the third long-duration Mir expedition, Mir EO-3.
Lhakhov and Mohmand depart Mir on 6 September in Soyuz TM-5. Even though the TM-5 spacecraft had only been launched a few months earlier, for Mir EP-2 , it was thought to be better to leave the resident crew with the most recent Soyuz spacecraft.
Abdul Ahad Mohmand (born 1959), Afghan aviator; Mohmand, Pashtun tribe This page was last edited on 17 October 2023, at 12:28 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Also on TM-6 was the two-person crew of the visiting expedition Mir EP-3, consisting of the commander Vladimir Lyakhov, as well as the first Afghan cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand. After about a week on the station, Lyakhov and Mohmand returned to Earth in Soyuz TM-5, leaving the fresh TM-6 spacecraft at the station as their new lifeboat. [5]
In 1988, Abdul Ahad Mohmand became the first Afghan to reach space, spending nine days aboard the Mir space station. [57] With the increase of seats on the Space Shuttle, the U.S. began taking international astronauts. In 1983, Ulf Merbold of West Germany became the first non-US citizen to fly in a US spacecraft.