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Abdul Ahad Momand – the first Afghan in space

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Financial Times, 1 April 2011
What many may thing is a joke on April fools’ day, is nothing but the truth: Momand was a cosmonaut in the Soviet space programme and boarded a Soyuz spaceship in 1988. He now lives in Germany.

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