The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Afghanistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Afghan Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 524 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Afghanistan. This makes Afghanistan the birth place of the 28th most number of Astronauts behind Hong Kong and Switzerland.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Afghan Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Afghan Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Abdul Ahad Mohmand (1959 - )
With an HPI of 52.56, Abdul Ahad Mohmand is the most famous Afghan Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.
Abdul Ahad Momand (Pashto: عبدالاحد مومند; born 1959) is an Afghan-German and former Afghan Air Force aviator who became the first, and currently only, Afghan astronaut to journey to outer space. He became one of Soyuz TM-6 crew members and spent nine days aboard the Mir space station in 1988 as an Interkosmos research cosmonaut. Momand holds many records as an Afghan astronaut. He became the first person to take the Quran to space and recite it there. When he spoke to his mother on the phone from space, Pashto became the fourth language to be officially spoken in space. He became the first Afghan citizen and the fourth Muslim to visit outer space, after Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, Muhammed Faris, and Musa Manarov.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronauts born between 1959 and 1959. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living astronauts include Abdul Ahad Mohmand.
