Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
Astronaut
1942 –
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Who is Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez?
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez was 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. As a member of the crew of Soyuz 38, he became the first Latin American and the first person of African ancestry in space; he was proclaimed at the time as the first black cosmonaut.
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