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  2. Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez - Wikipedia

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    Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born 29 January 1942) is a Cuban military officer, legislator, and former cosmonaut and the first person of African heritage in space. [1] [2] In 1980, as a member of the crew of Soyuz 38, he became the first Cuban citizen, the first Latin American, the first person of African descent, and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United ...

  3. Soyuz 38 - Wikipedia

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    Ryumin filmed ignition and operation of the transport's main engine. Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez of Cuba and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko docked without incident. The purpose of the Soyuz 38 mission was to carry out nine experiments. They stimulated different areas of the brain to further understand the electrical activity in our brain.

  4. America's first Black astronaut candidate finally goes to ...

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    Three years earlier, the Soviets launched the first Black astronaut, Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, a Cuban of African descent. After leaving the military in 1966, Dwight joined IBM and started a ...

  5. List of Hispanic astronauts - Wikipedia

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    Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez January 29, 1942 Cuba: First person from Latin America to fly in space. First person of African descent in space. First Cuban in space. Soyuz 38 (September 18, 1980) 2 Rodolfo Neri Vela February 19, 1952 Mexico: First Mexican in space. STS-61-B (November 26, 1985) 3 Franklin Chang-Diaz April 5, 1950 United States ( Costa ...

  6. Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally ...

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    Three years earlier, the Soviets launched the first Black astronaut, Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, a Cuban of African descent. After leaving the military in 1966, Dwight joined IBM and started a ...

  7. Category:Cuban military aviators - Wikipedia

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    Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez This page was last edited on 7 June 2024, at 05:51 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  8. Order of Playa Girón - Wikipedia

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    Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Cuban cosmonaut (1980) [8] Leonid Popov, Soviet cosmonaut (1980) [citation needed] Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet cosmonaut (1980) [citation needed] Nelson Mandela, South African political prisoner (1984) [9] Oliver Tambo, South African anti-apartheid activist (24 March 1986) [10] Sergey Sokolov, Soviet commander (1986 ...

  9. LA prosecutors compared to Nazis and ‘sent off to Siberia ...

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    A pair of prosecutors claim the new district attorney and an underling demoted them and dragged their names through the mud after they said the killer Menendez brothers should go free.