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Pham Tuan

( The first Vietnamese cosmonaut)

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Biography Pham Tuan
The first Vietnamese cosmonaut. Born February 14, 1947 in the village Kuoktuan County Kien Syong Thay Binh province to a peasant family. Ibid spent his childhood and school years. In 1964 he graduated from high school. In 1965 he was conscripted into the Vietnam People's Army. Health had somehow recognized the unimportant and decided that it is suitable only in aviation. Was sent to study in the Soviet Union. However, the Soviet medical board determined that he was quite unfit to flight operations and sent to study at military school pilots. Because of the outbreak of the Vietnam War course was shortened and Pham Tuan graduated from college as early as 1967. Returned home and served in the fighter aircraft in Viet Nam. Was sent to the famous regiment of "Red Star", which is fully able to show their talent military pilot. First flown the MiG-17, then the MiG-21. On his skill demonstrated by the fact that Pham Tuan had the right to land on all airfields in North Vietnam.

This right was granted only the most experienced pilots in Viet Nam. He has mastered their own night flights. In 1972, during one of his missions, shot down an American bomber B-52. It was the only one in the history of the Vietnam War, the case when the bomber was shot down by the Vietnamese fighter pilot. After the war he continued service in the aviation wing of the Vietnam People's Army. In 1979, together with another pilot BUOY Thanh Liem was selected for training to fly on a Soviet spacecraft in the program of cooperation of the socialist countries of the Intercosmos. In the same year, began training at the Cosmonaut Training Center named after Yury Gagarin. It has been a crash course of general space training and preparing to fly to the ship type "Union" and orbital station "Salyut-6".

July 23, 1980 was launched into space along with Soviet cosmonaut Viktor Gorbatko as a cosmonaut-researcher spacecraft "Soyuz-37". Within seven days, the astronauts have worked aboard the orbital station Salyut-6 "-" Soyuz-36 "-" Soyuz-37 ", together with Leonid Ivanovich Popov and Valery Ryumin. July 31, 1980 returned to Earth aboard Soyuz-36 ". Mission duration was 7 days 20 hours 42 minutes. After flying for a short time he returned home, and then returned to the Soviet Union and studied at the Air Force Academy named after Yury Gagarin. He graduated from the academy in 1982. Later he served as chief political management of the Air Force Vietnam.

Hero of the Soviet Union (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 31 July 1980). Hero of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Hero of Labor of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Decision of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly of Vietnam on August 1, 1980). He was awarded the Soviet Order of Lenin, the Order of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh 1-st degree, other orders and medals.


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