Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
| Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez | |
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| Arnaldo Tamayo, the first Cuban in space, in Berlin in 2018 | |
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 Cuba
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| Organization: | air force |
| selected on | 1977/1. March 1978 |
| Calls: | 1 space flight |
| Begin: | September 18, 1980 |
| Landing: | September 26, 1980 |
| Time in space: | 7d 20h 43min 24s |
| retired on | September 26, 1980 |
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Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born January 29, 1942 in Guantánamo , Cuba ) is a Cuban politician . He was military - pilot and astronaut , and as such, the first Latin American in space .
Life
Arnaldo Tamayo is a graduate of the Cuban Air Force Academy. He was selected as a cosmonaut by the Cuban authorities in 1977 and was accepted into the Interkosmos program as a cosmonaut on March 1, 1978 by the Juri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center . His substitute was José Armando López Falcón . As a research cosmonaut of the eighth visiting team from Salyut 6 , Tamayo Méndez flew into space with Soyuz 38 on September 18, 1980 . With the landing on September 26, 1980, Méndez left the cosmonaut corps.
Tamayo remained a pilot in the Cuban Air Force; later he was appointed director of the Committee for Defense of the Revolution . In December 2006, Tamayo Méndez held the rank of Brigadier General and was Director of International Relations for the Cuban Ministry of Defense.
Tamayo is a member of the Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular Cuban parliament for the city of Baracoa .
Arnaldo Tamayo is married and has two sons.
Awards
- Tamayo is the hero of the Republic of Cuba .
- In 2017 he was awarded the Medal for Space Science by UNESCO .
literature
- Peter Stache: spaceman from A to Z . Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic , Berlin [East] 1988, ISBN 3-327-00527-3 .
Web links
- Amy Marie Scott-Zerr: Tamayo Méndez, Arnaldo (1942-) , The Online Reference Guide to African American History (English)
- Arnaldo Tamayo (English)
- spacefacts.de: Short biography
Individual evidence
- ^ Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular: Diputados elegidos en la VIII Legislatura. Retrieved July 29, 2018 .
- ^ Summit of the African Union: Cuba confirms solidarity with Africa , amerika21.de, February 4, 2017
- ↑ First UNESCO Space Science Medals awarded to four prominent scientists and space practitioners
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| SURNAME | Tamayo Méndez, Arnaldo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cuban cosmonaut , pilot and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guantánamo , Cuba |