muhammad faris was not an allawi, like most representatives of the government of the syrian arab republic and the baaz party. allegedly, this played a decisive role in emphasizing the unity of the nation. on july 22 , 1987, on the soyuz tm-3 spacecraft, he went to the mir station together with the soviet cosmonauts viktorenko and aleksandrov almost immediately complain about your health. space. time, several days, one might say, difficult in the sense that he also felt some discomfort within himself. the space program for the first syrian cosmonaut was not particularly difficult, it was necessary to photograph the territory of syria and the historical ruins of... i took with me damascus steel, syrian soil, took photographs of my family, my children, more children's toys, a figurine of a small man, a cow and a small plush heart. i took more of my children’s toys, of course, a portrait of its president, hafez al-assad, and we had it on board next to the portrait of gorbachev, our leader at that time. the former general found himself on the other side of the barricades at the beginning of th