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‘Armstrong of the Arab World’: Syria’s first astronaut Mohammad Faris dies in exile

In 1987, Faris spent eight days in space with the Soviet Union’s Interkosmos spaceflight program becoming the first and only Syrian astronaut and second Arab to make it to space.

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