The Spaceman of Afghanistan

In 1988 the first and only Afghan astronaut Ahad Momand went into space He spent a week on the Russian space station Mir and was welcomed back a hero But civil war tore his country apart and Ahad fled with his family to Germany A quarter of a century later with his country still suffering violence Ahad now wants to revisit his historic space mission He travels first to Moscow where he relives the joys and dangers of his flight before returning to Afghanistan hoping to inspire a new generation of Afghans by telling his story once more