Abdul Ahad Mohmand
218
Abdul Ahad Mohmand
Birthdate Unknown
LIFE FORM
Gender
Rank
Soviet Air Force Colonel
MISSIONS
1
TIME IN SPACE
08D:20H:26M
SPACEWALKS
-
SPACEWALK TIME
-
Abdul Ahad Mohmand
218
Abdul Ahad Mohmand
Birthdate Unknown
LIFE FORM
Gender
Rank
Soviet Air Force Colonel
MISSIONS
1
TIME IN SPACE
08D:20H:26M
SPACEWALKS
-
SPACEWALK TIME
-
Badges
Crossed Kármán Line
Crossed Kármán Line
This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.
First Man from Afghanistan
First Man from Afghanistan
This astronaut is the first man from Afghanistan to go to space.
WIKIPEDIA EXCERPT
Abdul Ahad Mohmand is a former Afghan Air Force aviator who became the first Afghan and fourth Muslim 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 Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut. He holds many records as an Afghan Astronaut. During this mission, Abdul Ahad Mohmand was the first cosmonaut to speak the Pashto language after he made a telephone call to Afghanistan, making it the fourth language to be officially spoken in space. He became the first Afghan citizen and the fourth Muslim to visit outer space, after Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, Muhammed Faris, and Musa Manarov.