Career record
Flights
1
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
7d 20h
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0
Biography
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born January 29, 1942) is a Cuban military officer, legislator, and former cosmonaut and the first person of African heritage in space. As a member of the crew of Soyuz 38, he became the first Cuban citizen and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into Earth orbit.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- Soyuz-U | Soyuz 38 — Research Cosmonaut · Success · September 18, 1980 · 19:11 UTC
Born 1942-01-29