Abdul Ahad Mohmand

Abdul Ahad Momand is an Afghan-German and former Afghan Air Force aviator who became the first, and currently only, Afghan astronaut to journey to outer space. He became one of Soyuz TM-6 crew members and spent nine days aboard the Mir space station in 1988 as an Interkosmos research cosmonaut.

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1959  Wikidata
Abdul Ahad Momand; Abdul-Ahad Mohmand
aircraft pilot, accountant, astronaut, 

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  Soyuz TM-5 ⓘ
  1988 Soviet crewed spaceflight to Mir

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  Soyuz TM-6 ⓘ
  1988 Soviet crewed spaceflight to Mir

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Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
class	orbit		Soyuz TM-5	Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov, Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev, Krasimir Stojanow, Soyuz-TM, Viktor Savinykh, Vladimir Lyakhov, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		Soyuz TM-6	Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Jean-Loup Chrétien, Musa Manarov, Soyuz-TM, Valeri Polyakov, Vladimir Lyakhov, Vladimir Titov, human spaceflight,	Wikidata