The Syrian opposition announced on Friday the death of Syrian astronaut Major General Mohamed Faris, in a hospital in Gaziantep, southern Turkey, after experiencing a health crisis a few days prior. The Anadolu Agency reported that close friends of the late astronaut confirmed his death following a heart attack at the end of Ramadan. Mohamed Faris, born in Aleppo in 1951, was the first Syrian astronaut and the second Arab astronaut after Saudi Sultan bin Salman. He gained significant fame at the Syrian, Arab, and international levels after he went into space on a joint mission with the Soviet Union in 1987. He moved to Turkey when the Syrian crisis broke out in 2011, and Ankara later granted him Turkish citizenship.
Second Arab Astronaut Passes Away!
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