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The first Black man in space: How America forgot a historic orbital flight

Tamayo Mendez is Cuba’s first and only cosmonaut.


Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez grew up a poor orphan, but in September 1980 he wound up flying to space as Cuba’s first and only Cosmonaut.

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