First Iranian-American man to travel to space tells his story
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Cardiologist Dr. Eiman Jahangir, born in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq War and immigrated to the US at age four, flew aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket in August 2024, becoming the first Iranian-American man to travel to space and the world's first commercial physician astronaut.
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