On 7 February, a meeting between Lieutenant General Phạm Tuân and Vietnamese American astronaut Amanda Nguyễn, along with young Air Defence–Air Force military officers and youth representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was held at the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs in Hanoi. #VietnamToday #yourwindowonVietnam #Space #pioneer #astronaut | Vietnam Today

Born in 1947 in Thái Bình, Phạm Tuân joined the air force and graduated from the Krasnodar Flight School in the Soviet Union as a MiG-17 pilot in 1967. He became a lieutenant colonel before being sent to the USSR-Vietnamese joint space program to train as a research cosmonaut. In 1979, he was chosen as a crew member of the 6th international spaceflight as part of the USSR’s Interkosmos (Интеркосмос) program. On July 23, 1980, Phạm Tuân and Soviet cosmonaut Viktor Gorbatko were launched from the