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Muhammed Faris was Syria's first astronaut but fled after defying orders from President Assad for his fellow pilots to attack protestors. He told Matthew Bannister how he was picked to go into space. (Picture: Russian Space Station Mir, where Muhammed Faris was an austronaut, in orbit above the earth Picture credit: NASA/Getty Images)