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Abdul Ahad Mohmand

1959 - Today

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Abdul Ahad Momand (Pashto: عبدالاحد مومند; born 1959) is an Afghan-German and former Afghan Air Force aviator who became the first, and currently only, Afghan astronaut 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 Interkosmos research cosmonaut. Momand holds many records as an Afghan astronaut. He became the first person to take the Quran to space and recite it there. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abdul Ahad Mohmand is the 102nd most popular astronaut (up from 117th in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 88th in 2019) and the most popular Afghan Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Abdul Ahad Mohmand ranks 102 out of 556. Before him are Andy Thomas, Valentin Bondarenko, Anatoly Filipchenko, Konstantin Feoktistov, Kathryn D. Sullivan, and Donn F. Eisele. After him are Yevgeny Khrunov, Douglas G. Hurley, Yang Liwei, Leonid Kizim, Viktor Afanasyev, and Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Abdul Ahad Mohmand ranks 146. Before him are Nagarjuna, Christian Thielemann, Vanity, Nicole Brown Simpson, Pietro Vierchowod, and Baron Waqa. After him are Henry Czerny, Jim Yong Kim, Koichi Tanaka, Martin Brundle, Aidan Quinn, and Massimo Bonini.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Abdul Ahad Mohmand ranks 89 out of 177. Before him are Abdullah Abdullah (1960), Muhammad of Ghazni (998), Abdul Qadir (1944), Suhaila Siddiq (1938), Eucratides I (-170), and Khvandamir (1475). After him are Unsuri (980), Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), Agathokleia (-200), Humaira Begum (1918), Abdul Ali Mazari (1946), and Ashraf Hotak (1700).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Afghanistan

Among astronauts born in Afghanistan, Abdul Ahad Mohmand ranks 1. 

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