ASTRONAUT

Phạm Tuân

1947 - Today

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Phạm Tuân ([faːm˧ˀ˨ʔ twɜn˨˩] born 14 February 1947) is a retired Vietnamese Air Force fighter pilot and cosmonaut. He became the first Vietnamese cosmonaut, and the first person of Asian origin to be in space when he launched aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Interkosmos research cosmonaut. Alongside being the first Vietnamese and the first person from a Asian country. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Phạm Tuân has received more than 210,617 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Phạm Tuân is the 73rd most popular astronaut (down from 55th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Vietnam (down from 43rd in 2019) and the most popular Vietnamese Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Phạm Tuân ranks 73 out of 556. Before him are Gordon Cooper, Claude Nicollier, Viktor Gorbatko, Thomas P. Stafford, Michael J. Smith, and Mary L. Cleave. After him are Yuri Artyukhin, Sally Ride, Konstantin Feoktistov, Georgi Ivanov, Leonid Popov, and Rakesh Sharma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Phạm Tuân ranks 221. Before him are David Helfgott, Jioji Konrote, Jean-Yves Le Drian, Bobby Kimball, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Mary L. Cleave. After him are Theo de Jong, Staffan de Mistura, Hassan Shehata, Anatoli Polivoda, Jiří Kylián, and Pauline Moran.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Phạm Tuân ranks 58 out of 136. Before him are Ngô Đình Thục (1897), Nguyễn Du (1765), Đồng Khánh (1864), Lê Đức Anh (1920), Ngô Quyền (897), and Son Ngoc Thanh (1908). After him are Thành Thái (1879), Phạm Minh Chính (1958), Trần Đại Quang (1956), Hàm Nghi (1872), Dục Đức (1852), and Đinh Bộ Lĩnh (924).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Vietnam

Among astronauts born in Vietnam, Phạm Tuân ranks 1. After him are Eugene H. Trinh (1950).

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