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Presenting awards to the Soviet-Afghan crew of the Soyuz TM-6 space flight. Mohammad Dauran, the double of the Afghan cosmonaut, second left, commander Vladimir Lyakhov, center, and Afghan research cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand with their family members.
07.09.1988#6554233

Presenting awards to the Soviet-Afghan crew of the Soyuz TM-6 space flight. Center: Abdul Ahad Mohmand, captain of the Afghan Air Forces and research cosmonaut, receives the Hero of the Soviet Union title with the Lenin Order and the Golden Star medal.
07.09.1988#6554228

Presenting awards to the Soviet-Afghan crew of the Soyuz TM-6 space flight. From left: Tengiz Menteshashvili, Secretary of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, Georgy Tarazevich, Chairman of the Presidium of the Belorussian SSR Supreme Soviet, Andrei Gromyko, Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, commander of the space flight Vladimir Lyakhov, Afghan research cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand, his double Mohammad Dauran, and Kerim Kerimov, Chairman of the State Commission on Testing Manned Spacecraft, after the ceremony.
07.09.1988#6554225

Left: Andrei Gromyko, Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, congratulates Abdul Ahad Mohmand, captain of the Afghan Air Forces and research cosmonaut, on receiving the Hero of the Soviet Union title with the Lenin Order and the Golden Star medal.
07.09.1988#6553527

News conference for Soviet and foreign journalists on the launch of the Soyuz TM-6 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakh SSR. From left: Afghan cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand and his backup, Mohammad Dauran.
29.08.1988#6545891

News conference for Soviet and foreign journalists on the launch of the Soyuz TM-6 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakh SSR. The international crew included twice Hero of the Soviet Union, spacecraft commander Vladimir Lyakhov, physician Valery Polyakov and researcher Abdul Ahad Mohmand, a national of Afghanistan.
29.08.1988#6546822

Soviet-Afghan crew of the Soyuz TM-6 spacecraft (launched on August 29, 1988). Afghan cosmonaut and researcher Abdul Ahad Mohmand, left, with his wife, center, and his daughter during their discharge from the maternity hospital. Background: his backup, Mohammad Dauran, and Soviet cosmonaut Yury Malyshev, second right.
20.08.1988#6610582

Soviet-Afghan crew of the Soyuz TM-6 spacecraft (launched on August 29, 1988) before a splashdown drill. From left: Afghan cosmonaut and researcher Abdul Ahad Mohmand and Soviet cosmonaut and researcher, doctor Valery Polyakov.
01.08.1988#6610590

Soviet-Afghan crew of the Soyuz TM-6 spacecraft (launched on August 29, 1988) before a splashdown drill. From left: Afghan cosmonaut and researcher Abdul Ahad Mohmand and Soviet cosmonaut and researcher, doctor Valery Polyakov.
01.08.1988#6610588

Preparations for a joint Soviet-Afghan space flight. Feodosia, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Afghan research cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand and Soviet doctor and cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, right to left, during water landing drills.
20.07.1988#6545776

Preparations for a joint Soviet-Afghan space flight. Afghan research cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Soviet doctor and cosmonaut Valery Polyakov and Soyuz TM-6 commander Vladimir Lyakhov, left to right, during training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
01.06.1988#6545773

Members of the Soviet-Afghan crew of the Soyuz TM-6 spaceflight, research cosmonaut from Afghanistan Abdul Ahad Mohmand and his double Mohammad Dawran, left to right, prepare for the flight at Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
01.06.1988#8306103

A member of the joint Soviet-Afghan crew of the Soyuz TM-6 spacecraft, Afghan cosmonaut-researcher Abdul Ahad Mohmand during preparations for the flight scheduled for August 29, 1988.
01.06.1988#8306102

A member of the joint Soviet-Afghan crew of the Soyuz TM-6 spacecraft, Afghan cosmonaut-researcher Abdul Ahad Mohmand during preparations for the flight scheduled for August 29, 1988.
01.06.1988#8306100

Yury Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Soviet-Afghan crew of the Soyuz TM-6 spacecraft (launched on August 29, 1988). Afghan cosmonaut and researcher Abdul Ahad Mohmand, center, and his backup Mohammad Dauran in the cockpit of a simulator spacecraft.
02.03.1988#6610592