Afghan astronaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, has died at 67. An Air Force aviator who joined Soyuz TM-6, he remains Afghanistan’s only space traveler and a pioneering figure in the country’s scientific history.
Abdul Ahad Momand, Afghanistan’s first and only astronaut, has died of cancer in Stuttgart, Germany, on June 21. Born in Ghazni, he flew on the Mir space station in 1988 as part of a Soviet-led mission and later lived in exile. His legacy is marked by a historic spaceflight that connected Afghanistan with the wider cosmos.