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Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, a 38-year-old Cuban-born pilot of African descent, became the first Latin American and first black person to fly into space when he was launched on the Soyuz-38 Soviet-Cuban mission in September 1980. In speaking of his life and the many opportunities it presented, Méndez later pointed out he owed everything to the revolution which brought Fidel Castro to power in Cuba in 1959.
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Mikhail Chernyshov, article, “Cuba in Outer Space,” Soviet Weekly newspaper, issue 2 October 1980
Soviet Weekly newspaper biography, “Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez,” issue 9 October 1980
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Burgess, C., Vis, B. (2016). The Cuban Salyut mission. In: Interkosmos. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24163-0_8
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