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TIL that in 1978 Sigmund Jähn, an East German Air Force pilot, was the first German in space. He joined the crew of Soyuz 31 on a manned space mission to the Soviet space station Salyut 6. Sigmund died on Sept. 21, 2019, at age 82.

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