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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
astronaut, accountant, aircraft pilot, Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration", Order of Lenin, Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, Order of the Sun of Liberty, Germany, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, 

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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

Soyuz TM-6, 

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1959 Abdul Ahad Mohmand

1988-06-07T00:00:00Z

1988-06-07T00:00:00Z

1988 Soyuz TM-5

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1988-08-29T00:00:00Z

1988 Soyuz TM-6

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Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
event	spaceflight	1988	Soyuz TM-5	Soyuz-TM, human spaceflight	Wikidata
event	spaceflight	1988	Soyuz TM-6	human spaceflight, Soyuz-TM	Wikidata