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Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
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Born January 29, 1942 (age 83) • Guantánamo • Cuba
Awards And Honors Order of Lenin
Georgy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky
Soviet cosmonaut
Mirosław Hermaszewski
Mirosław Hermaszewski
Polish pilot
Dumitru Prunariu.
Dumitru Prunariu
Romanian pilot and cosmonaut
Phạm Tuân
Vietnamese pilot and cosmonaut
Aleksandr Volkov
Russian pilot and cosmonaut
Farkas, Bertalan
Bertalan Farkas
Hungarian pilot and cosmonaut
Jähn, Sigmund
Sigmund Jähn
East German cosmonaut
Muhammed Faris
Syrian pilot and air force officer
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Strekalov.
Gennady Mikhailovich Strekalov
Russian cosmonaut
Bella, Ivan
Ivan Bella
Slovak pilot and air force officer
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya
Soviet cosmonaut
Jean-Loup Chrétien.
Jean-Loup Chrétien
French astronaut
Pyotr Klimuk
Pyotr Klimuk
Soviet cosmonaut
Pavel Popovich on Vostok 4
Pavel Popovich
Soviet cosmonaut
Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov
Soviet cosmonaut
Jugderdemidiin Gurragcha, 1981.
Jugderdemidiin Gurragcha
Mongolian cosmonaut
Sharma, Rakesh
Rakesh Sharma
Indian military pilot and cosmonaut
Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev
Soviet cosmonaut
Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova
Soviet cosmonaut
Abdul Ahad Mohmand
Afghan pilot and cosmonaut

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