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    Saxony, Germany. His father, Paul Jähn, was a sawmill worker, and his mother, Dora Jähn, was a housewife. Sigmund attended grade school from 1943 to...
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  • Hungarian-born American Reform rabbi Sigmund Esco "Jackie" Jackson, African-American singer in the Jackson 5 Sigmund Jähn, an East German cosmonaut Siegmund...
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    Germany. The exhibition is dedicated to spaceflight and space exploration. Sigmund Jähn, born in Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz, was the first German astronaut, completing...
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  • taxi driver (who ambiguously either is or strongly resembles cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space and Alex's childhood hero) to act in the false...
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    Mirosław Hermaszewski of Poland, the first Polish national in space (1978) Sigmund Jähn of East Germany, the first German in space (1978) Rakesh Sharma, the...
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    been in space. The first German, and only East German, in space was Sigmund Jähn in 1978. Three astronauts – Ulf Merbold, Reinhard Furrer and Ernst Messerschmid...
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  • Jahn (Jähn) is a German surname. Notable people with this surname include the following: Constanze Jahn (born 1963), German chess player David Jahn (born...
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    long-duration Soyuz 29 resident crew. Soyuz 31 carried Valery Bykovsky and Sigmund Jähn, the first German cosmonaut, into space. They swapped Soyuz craft with...
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    crewed spaceflight activities. East Germany had its first cosmonaut, Sigmund Jähn; Jähn was both West and East Germany's first citizen in space when he departed...
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    Soyuz 31 mission to the Salyut 6 space station with the East German Sigmund Jähn. It was launched on 26 August 1978. They joined two other cosmonauts...
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