Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "What exactly is meant by "Asian" astronaut depends on the definition used for Asian. If it is used to mean a citizen of a country wholly or partly in Asia, then the very first Asian in space was Yuri Gagarin himself, as the majority of the USSR's landmass (and Gagarins own launch point) was in Asia. Gagarin was from and born in European Russia, so that would make Ghurmann Titov (second man to orbit the Earth and 4th in space overall), the first as he was from and born in the Asian part of Russia. This definition would embrace many Soviet and. Russian cosmonauts, such as Alexi Leonov. US Astronauts such as Bill Anders (Apollo 8) and Shannon Lucid were also born in Asia, although they are not usually considered Asian astronauts. If "Asian" is restricted to refer to people from the continent of Asia, exclusive of Asian Russia, who are not of predominantly European, African, or American ancestry, then the list is as follows:.The first country listed is that of citizenship; the second, if any, is that of the Asian country of birth, where different.The list is divided between those astronauts whose origin or ancestry is in West or South Asia (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, India, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria) and those whose origin or ancestry is in East or Central Asia (China, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Vietnam)."@en }
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- List_of_Asian_astronauts abstract "What exactly is meant by "Asian" astronaut depends on the definition used for Asian. If it is used to mean a citizen of a country wholly or partly in Asia, then the very first Asian in space was Yuri Gagarin himself, as the majority of the USSR's landmass (and Gagarins own launch point) was in Asia. Gagarin was from and born in European Russia, so that would make Ghurmann Titov (second man to orbit the Earth and 4th in space overall), the first as he was from and born in the Asian part of Russia. This definition would embrace many Soviet and. Russian cosmonauts, such as Alexi Leonov. US Astronauts such as Bill Anders (Apollo 8) and Shannon Lucid were also born in Asia, although they are not usually considered Asian astronauts. If "Asian" is restricted to refer to people from the continent of Asia, exclusive of Asian Russia, who are not of predominantly European, African, or American ancestry, then the list is as follows:.The first country listed is that of citizenship; the second, if any, is that of the Asian country of birth, where different.The list is divided between those astronauts whose origin or ancestry is in West or South Asia (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, India, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria) and those whose origin or ancestry is in East or Central Asia (China, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Vietnam).".