ASTRONAUT

Abdul Ahad Mohmand

1959 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdul Ahad Mohmand has received more than 226,370 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Abdul Ahad Mohmand is the 117th most popular astronaut (down from 82nd in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 76th in 2019) and the most popular Afghan Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Abdul Ahad Mohmand ranks 117 out of 556. Before him are Talgat Musabayev, Gennady Padalka, Gregory Jarvis, Joseph A. Walker, Vladimir Aksyonov, and Leonid Kadeniuk. After him are Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Vitaly Sevastyanov, Anatoly Levchenko, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, Muhammed Faris, and Shannon Lucid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Abdul Ahad Mohmand ranks 153. Before him are Akhmed Zakayev, Michel Onfray, Majid Majidi, Toni Servillo, Pete Burns, and Gustavo Cerati. After him are Nobuo Uematsu, Jason Alexander, Giovanna Amati, Erwin Vandenbergh, Gilmar Rinaldi, and Kevin Nash.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Abdul Ahad Mohmand ranks 88 out of 177. Before him are Unsuri (980), Mohammad Yaqub Khan (1849), Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), Ibrahim al-Nazzam (760), Afghan Girl (1972), and Abdul Qadir (1944). After him are Ali Hujwiri (1009), Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (1139), Farrukhi Sistani (980), Mahmud Tarzi (1865), and Shah Shujah Durrani (1785).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Afghanistan

Among astronauts born in Afghanistan, Abdul Ahad Mohmand ranks 1. 

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