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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 ...
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: 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:
Abdul Ahad Mohmand: 29 August 1988 Soyuz TM-6: Mir: 7 September 1988 Soyuz TM-5: Mir crew rotation. First Afghan in space (Mohmand). Valeri Polyakov (1) 27 April 1989 Soyuz TM-7: 123 Frederick H. Hauck (3) Richard O. Covey (2) John M. Lounge (2) George D. Nelson (3) David C. Hilmers (2) 28 September 1988 STS-26, Discovery: 3 October 1988 STS-26 ...
Abdul Ahad Mohmand. Delivered a third crew member, Polyakov, for EO-3, in addition to the third Mir Intercosmos crew, EP-3, who returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days. [4] [5] 7. Soyuz TM-7: 26 November 1988 15:49:34 ~149 days 27 April 1989 02:57:58 Aleksandr Volkov. Sergei Krikalev Jean-Loup Chrétien
The Soyuz TM-2 launch was the beginning of a string of 6 Soyuz launches and three long-duration crews between 5 February 1987 and 27 April 1989. This period also saw the first international visitors, Muhammed Faris (Syria), Abdul Ahad Mohmand (Afghanistan) and Jean-Loup Chrétien (France).
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name.