Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez Astronaut
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born January 29, 1942) was the first Latin American and the first person of African ancestry in space; he was proclaimed at the time as the first black cosmonaut. As a member of the crew of Soyuz 38, he became the first Cuban citizen and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into earth orbit.
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| status | Retired |
| Time in space | 7 days 20 hours 43 minutes |