The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Vietnam
This page contains a list of the greatest Vietnamese Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 524 Astronauts, 2 of which were born in Vietnam. This makes Vietnam the birth place of the 17th most number of Astronauts behind India and Bulgaria.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Vietnamese Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Vietnamese Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Phạm Tuân (1947 - )
With an HPI of 54.60, Phạm Tuân is the most famous Vietnamese Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.
Phạm Tuân ([faːm˧ˀ˨ʔ twɜn˨˩] born 14 February 1947) is a retired Vietnam Air Force aviator and cosmonaut. He became the first Vietnamese citizen and the first person from an Asian country to fly in space when he launched aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Interkosmos research cosmonaut. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
2. Eugene H. Trinh (1950 - )
With an HPI of 42.29, Eugene H. Trinh is the 2nd most famous Vietnamese Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Eugene Huu-Chau "Gene" Trinh (Vietnamese: Trịnh Hữu Châu, born September 14, 1950) is a Vietnamese American biochemist who flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-50 as a Payload Specialist, becoming the first Vietnamese American astronaut in space and the second Vietnamese in space (after cosmonaut Phạm Tuân).
Pantheon has 2 people classified as astronauts born between 1947 and 1950. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living astronauts include Phạm Tuân and Eugene H. Trinh.
