Havana: The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, today praised the feat of the first Latin American cosmonaut, compatriot Arnaldo Tamayo, whose flight marks 40 years, Prensa Latina publishes.
“On September 18, 1980, Cuba joyfully celebrated the feat of its first cosmonaut,” the president wrote on his Twitter account, which he accompanied with photographs of Tamayo and the Soviet Yuri Romanenko, who commanded the ship that took them into space.
It orbited the Earth 128 times and during its more than 7 days in space, it applied 21 experiments from our Academy of Sciences, Díaz-Canel recalled.
In another entry, the head of state recalled the humble origins of Tamayo, a mestizo from Guantanamo who became the first cosmonaut in Latin America.
As a crew member of the Soyus-38, Arnaldo Tamayo, the Cuban Revolution and the poor of the earth entered the history of space flights, he stressed.