In 1980 Soyuz 38 carried the first Hispanic man in space, Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez of this country
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Game Show NewsNet  Apr 11, 2006 ... He bets $2500 on this: in 1980 Soyuz 38 carried the first Hispanic man in space, Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez of this country. "What is Cuba?
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Tamayo Mndez, Arnaldo (1942- ) | The Black Past: Remembered ...  Tamayo Mndez was born in Guantnamo, Cuba on January 29, 1942. ... Romanenko flew together aboard Soyuz 38, departing September 18, 1980. ... From Salyut 6, the two men and other crew members carried out 27 ... Robert Fikes Jr., First Black Astronaut: Arnaldo Tamayo Mndez, Baltimore Afro-American (Feb.
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Arnaldo Tamayo Mndez - Wikipedia  Arnaldo Tamayo Mndez (born January 29, 1942) was the first Cuban and the first black person in space; he was proclaimed at the time as the first black cosmonaut. As a member of the crew of Soyuz 38, he became the first Cuban citizen and the first person from a country in ... Since 1980, he has been a Deputy in the Cuban National Assembly,...
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Arnaldo Tamayo Mndez of Cuba became the first Latin American ...  Arnaldo Tamayo Mndez of Cuba became the first Latin American and the first person of African descent in space when he traveled aboard the Soviet Soyuz 38 spacecraft on September 18, 1980. ... An Afro-Cuban man in colonial attire Keywords: Stock Photo Picture Cuba Cuban Spanish Speaking Countries Latin America...
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Brigadier General Arnaldo Tamayo Mndez, a Cuban of African ...  First Latino In Space ~ September 18, 1980 ~ Arnaldo Tamayo Mndez (born 1942) became the first Latino in space, launching aboard the Soyuz 38 as ... 38, he became the first Cuban citizen and the first person from a country in ...... Unidentified young man in front of the Koreshan Unity general store on the Estero River.
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John Glenn returns to space - Oct 29, 1998 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, John Glenn returns to space on Oct 29, 1998. ... first American to orbit the Earth, Senator John Hershel Glenn, Jr., is launched into space again as ... At 77 years of age, Glenn was the oldest human ever to travel in space. ... and Space Administration (NASA) in 1959 to become America's first astronauts.
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First Space Tourist: How a U.S. Millionaire Bought a Ticket to Orbit  Apr 27, 2011 ... Forty years to the month after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, ... Tito launched in April 2001 aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft ... If the era of commercial spaceflight has a birthday, it's April 28, 2001. ... He would turn 60 later that year, and he felt like his chances of getting into space were...
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List of human spaceflight programs - Wikipedia  Vostok 1 was the first human spaceflight. The Vostok 3KA spacecraft was launched on April 12, 1961, taking into space Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union.
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Soviet probe crashes into Venus - Mar 01, 1966 - HISTORY.com  Venera 3, a Soviet probe launched from Kazakhstan on November 15, 1965, collides with ... atmosphere, it was the first unmanned spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet. ... Then, in 1970, Venera 7 became the first spacecraft created by humans to ... What Really Happened to Yuri Gagarin, the First Man in Space?
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1000+ images about Space: Skylab on Pinterest | Space Station ...  Homesteading Space | See more about Space Station, NASA and Astronauts. ... On July 28, 1973, Skylab 3, the 2nd manned mission to the first U.S. Space Station, ... In 1973-74, Gibson made his first and only flight into space as Science Pilot ..... The Skylab 3 crew: (left to right) Owen Garriott, Jack Lousma, and Alan Bean.
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Jeopary Questions page 1596 - PEOPLE IN HISTORY - TriviaBistro ...  TV OR NOT TV: "Men Into Space", "Men Behaving Badly", "Men Of La Mancha"  FIRST MAN IN SPACE FROM...: In 1978 men from this country took residence in...
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Alexey Leonov - Wikipedia  Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov is a retired Soviet/Russian cosmonaut and Air Force Major general. On 18 March 1965, he became the first human to conduct extravehicular activity (EVA), exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for a 12-minute spacewalk. ... He was outside the spacecraft for 12 minutes and nine seconds on 18 March...
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NASA - Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space  Apr 13, 2011 ... Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space on April 12, 1961 ... and Soviet spacecraft and to open the way for future joint manned flights.
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European Space History - Timeline | Facebook  European Space History - the FB page that features fascinating and unusual facts about the ... Launched on 14 May 1981, Soyuz 40 was the ninth Interkosmos mission. ... was Russian cosmonaut Leonid Popov and Dumitru Prunariu, the first cosmonaut ..... was launched on Soyuz TM-13 to become the first Austrian in space.
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Human spaceflight - Wikipedia  The USSR launched the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin into a single orbit in Vostok 1 on a Vostok 3KA rocket, on April 12, 1961. The US launched its first astronaut, Alan Shepard on a suborbital flight aboard Freedom 7 on a Mercury-Redstone rocket, on May 5, 1961.
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Soviet & Russian Human Spaceflight  Standing in the second row from left to right: Alexei Leonov, Andriyan ... Riding on the Vostok-1 spacecraft, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to ... Vostok-4 Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich shown in orbit during his mission from ... Voskhod-2 flew only two cosmonauts due to the extra volume required to perform the spacewalk...
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Astronaut - Wikipedia  An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, ... Starting in the 1950s up to 2002, astronauts were sponsored and trained .... By convention, an astronaut employed by the Russian Federal Space .... In 1983, Ulf Merbold of West Germany became the first non-US citizen to fly in a...
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russian astronaut becomes first woman to walk in space  Jul 26, 1984 ... A Russian astronaut, Svetlana Savitskaya, became the first woman to ... In June 1983, she became the first American woman to fly in space. ... a person expends much more energy than when back on the earth. ... Miss Savistskaya made her first space flight in August 1982 aboard ... A Test Pilot Since 1976.
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Gemini's First Docking Turns to Wild Ride in Orbit | NASA  Behind Scott is Chief Astronaut Alan Shepard, America's first man in space. ... He later was command module pilot on the Apollo 9 flight in 1969 and .... Hodge decided to have Gemini VIII re-enter after one more orbit and land within range ..... X was John Young, a veteran of the first mission in America's two-man spacecraft.
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The First Satellites  May 19, 1997 ... On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. Its official Russian name was Iskustvennyi Sputnik Zemli, or "Fellow Traveler of the...
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50 Years Ago Today: The Mission of Voskhod 1 | Drew Ex Machina  Oct 12, 2014 ... The list of space firsts included the first man in orbit (Vostok 1), the first man to ... Orbital Flight), NASA was also pushing forward on an interim program called ... First, the aerodynamics of a sphere were well understood and it is very stable. .... Soyuz launch vehicle still in use today over half a century later.