Phạm Tuân
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| Phạm Tuân | |
| Country: | Vietnam |
| selected on | April 1979 |
| Calls: | 1 space flight |
| Begin: | July 23, 1980 |
| Landing: | July 31, 1980 |
| Time in space: | 7d 20h 42min |
| retired on | July 31, 1980 |
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Phạm Tuân (born February 14, 1947 in Quốc Tuấn , Thái Bình Province , Democratic Republic of Vietnam ) is an engineer and former cosmonaut . He is the first and so far only citizen of Vietnam to have been in space . Another Vietnamese, Eugene Trinh , a payload specialist at STS-50 , from Saigon , the capital of South Vietnam , became a US citizen in 1968.
Life
Phạm Tuân (in Vietnamese the family name is prefixed) studied engineering and then joined the air force of the North Vietnamese People's Army . Phạm caused a sensation when, on December 27, 1972, he succeeded in shooting down a US B-52 bomber over Hanoi on a MiG-21 . For this military success, Phạm received the Ho Chi Minh Order combined with the title "Hero of the Army". In addition, Phạm was sent to the Military Academy of the Air Force "JA Gagarin" in the Soviet Monino , where he received his degree in 1979.
In April 1979 Phạm was accepted into the Interkosmos program as a cosmonaut . Already in July 1980 he flew into space as a member of the seventh visiting team of the Salyut 6 ; its feeder spaceship was the Soyuz 37 . For this he received the Soviet Order of Lenin and the Hero of the Soviet Union award . After landing on July 31, 1980 with Soyuz 36 , he left the cosmonaut corps.
The pilot returned to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and stayed with the Vietnamese Air Force . Phạm now holds the rank of Lieutenant General of the Vietnamese Air Force. Phạm later became cabinet minister for the Vietnamese National Assembly and is currently director of the Vietnamese defense industry at the Ministry of Defense and head of the main economic department.
Phạm is married and has one child.
literature
- Peter Stache: spaceman from A to Z . Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin [East] 1988, ISBN 3-327-00527-3 .
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| SURNAME | Phạm, Tuân |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Vietnamese cosmonaut, pilot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quốc Tuấn , Vietnam |