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Born January 1, 1959 (age 66) • Afghanistan
Awards And Honors Order of Lenin
Aleksandr Volkov
Russian pilot and cosmonaut
Muhammed Faris
Syrian pilot and air force officer
Haigneré, Claudie
Claudie Haigneré
French cosmonaut, doctor, and politician
Franz Viehböck
Austrian electrical engineer and cosmonaut
Sergey Konstantinovich Krikalyov.
Sergey Konstantinovich Krikalyov
Russian cosmonaut
Helen Sharman
Helen Sharman
British chemist and astronaut
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Strekalov.
Gennady Mikhailovich Strekalov
Russian cosmonaut
Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyov.
Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyov
Soviet cosmonaut
Jean-Loup Chrétien.
Jean-Loup Chrétien
French astronaut
Astronaut Shannon Lucid.
Shannon Wells Lucid
American astronaut
Ulf Merbold.
Ulf Merbold
German physicist and astronaut
Valery Polyakov
Valery Vladimirovich Polyakov
Soviet cosmonaut
Yelena Kondakova.
Yelena Kondakova
Russian cosmonaut
Mirosław Hermaszewski
Mirosław Hermaszewski
Polish pilot
Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova
Soviet cosmonaut
Farkas, Bertalan
Bertalan Farkas
Hungarian pilot and cosmonaut
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
Cuban pilot and cosmonaut
Jähn, Sigmund
Sigmund Jähn
East German cosmonaut
Gherman Stepanovich Titov
Soviet cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin
Soviet cosmonaut

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