The first black cosmonaut in space, a Cuban Ai r Force pilot, Colonel Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, with a Russian colleague, Yury Rumanenko, be fore their launch in a Soyuz-38 spacecraft They have since linked with the Salyut 6 space laboratory, in which two fellow Russian cosmonauts have been living since April this year. Colonel M endez-is a former boot-black and vegetable seller who was orphaned before he was one.
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Press, 24 September 1980, Page 9
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69The first black cosmonaut in space, a Cuban Ai r Force pilot, Colonel Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, with a Russian colleague, Yury Rumanenko, be fore their launch in a Soyuz-38 spacecraft They have since linked with the Salyut 6 space laboratory, in which two fellow Russian cosmonauts have been living since April this year. Colonel M endez-is a former boot-black and vegetable seller who was orphaned before he was one. Press, 24 September 1980, Page 9
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