Muhammed Achmed Faris

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Muhammed Achmed Faris
Muhammed Achmed Faris
Country: Syria
selected on September 30, 1985
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: July 22, 1987
Landing: July 30, 1987
Time in space: 7d 23h 04min 55sec
retired on July 30, 1987
Space flights

General Muhammed Achmed Faris ( Arabic محمد أحمد فارس, DMG Muḥammad Aḥmad Fāris ; Born May 26, 1951 in Aleppo , Syria ) is a pilot and former cosmonaut . He was the first and so far only Syrian in space .

Life

Muhammed Faris attended the military aviation school in Aleppo . After graduating in 1973, he served as a pilot in the Syrian Air Force . He is considered a navigation specialist.

On September 30, 1985, Faris was selected as a cosmonaut and accepted into the Interkosmos program. In July 1987 he flew into space with Soyuz TM-3 as a research cosmonaut of the first guest team on the Mir space station . After landing with Soyuz TM-2 a week later, Faris retired as a cosmonaut.

Awarded the Order of Hero of the Soviet Union , which he received on July 30, 1987, as well as the Order of Lenin , Faris returned to the Syrian Air Force and held the rank of Colonel .

Faris is married and lived in Aleppo with his three children until the civil war in 2012. Until spring 2011 he passed on his knowledge of space travel to schools and universities.

In view of the civil war in Syria , he fled to Turkey after converting to the opposition on August 5, 2012, and has since lived in the Fatih district of Istanbul . Currently (2016) he gives lectures on space travel, also to children and young people, for example in the planetarium in Istanbul- Eyüp , and teaches at universities. In addition, he says he is committed to democratic change in Syria.

Trivia

Faris gave his son the name of the space station. Mir Faris currently (2016) lives in Bonn .

See also

List of spacemen

literature

Peter Stache: spaceman from A to Z . Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin (GDR) 1988, ISBN 3-327-00527-3 .

Web links

Short biography on spacefacts.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on the website of the heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia (Russian)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Elisabeth Kimmerle: A cosmonaut on the run . In: Kiel News . Kiel April 8, 2016, p. 36 . trt.net.tr
  3. ↑ Report on Welt.de
personal data
SURNAME Faris, Muhammed Achmed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian cosmonaut and pilot
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Aleppo , Syria