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Abdul Qahar Afghan and Suzan Fraser

Abdul Ahad Momand, an Afghan air force pilot who served on the Mir space station, dies at 67

Obit Afghan Cosmonaut Momand - (NASA TV via AP)

Abdul Ahad Momand, Afghanistan ’s first citizen in space, has died at age 67, his family and friends said.

A national hero, Momand died from cancer on June 21 in a hospital in Stuttgart, Germany, where he had lived since leaving Afghanistan in 1992 during the civil war.

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