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Born January 29, 1942 (age 84) • Guantánamo • Cuba
Awards And Honors Order of Lenin

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Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez smiles in a white and blue spacesuit with mission patches, posing against a plain blue background.
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Yuri Romanenko, both in blue space suits with mission patches, work with equipment inside the Salyut 6 space station.
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Russian cosmonaut Gennady Strekalov.
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