… Tamayo Mendez, a 38-year-old Cuban-born pilot of African descent, became the first
Latin American and first black person to fly into space when he was launched on the Soyuz - 38 …

… Logic would have dictated that the third visiting crew, with Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo
Mendez , would also have changed spacecraft, but they returned in their own Soyuz - 38 . In …

… Results from ground analyses of ISS archival water samples returned on Soyuz 38 confirmed
that dimethylsilanediol was once again the contaminant responsible for the rise. With this …

… the Soyuz 38 … Soyuz 38 spacecraft in which they had been launched and landing just two
miles from their designated landing zone. It was not clear why the two men returned in Soyuz 38 …

… The Soyuz 38 crew performed over 20 experiments primarily … The standard report of the
Soyuz 38 mission benefitted from … The first published report of the Soyuz 38 launch made it into …

… Available from: https://history.nasa.gov/SP-483/ch2-3.htm] A Soyuz 38 cosmonaut noted
that use of the boots “reduced the severity of spatial illusions and motor disturbances, …

… Race and politics have kept him out of the spotlight, but his presence aboard Soyuz 38
confirmed that space is not just the domain of powerful industrial nations, but that it belongs to …

When crewed spaceflight in the United States began, it was little more than one person stuffed
into a tiny" tin can" and hurled through the atmosphere into a low Earth orbit. Gradually, …