[net.space] Cuban astronaut?

chips1@houti.UUCP (H.BIMS) (08/08/83)

	Someone submitted an article a couple days
ago saying that a Cuban was the first black to venture
into space.  I would like some additional background
information about the astronaut, such as:

	1.  When did he make the flight?

	2.  What was his name?

	3.  How old was he?
	
	etc.


		Harry Bims
		ATTIS - Holmdel, NJ
		houti!chips1

ecn-ec:ecn-pc:ecn-ed:vu@pur-ee.UUCP (08/09/83)

	The sending of a Cuban astronaut in space was part of
a propaganda move by the Soviet Union. It happened in late 1981,
when the Soviets send, first a Vietnamese, then a Cuban into
space with their (USSR's) Saluyt (6 ?), all within 3-4 months.
That's something to polish the Soviet image to Vietnamese nad
Cuban people, right ?                                     ^^^-> and
	Back issues of Pravda mentioned these events. Check
in the library.

	Hao-Nhien Vu (pur-ee!vu  or better: pur-ee!norris)