Pham Tuan
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Who was Pham Tuan?
Vietnamese fighter pilot and cosmonaut who became the first Vietnamese and first Asian person to travel to space in 1980 aboard Soyuz 37. He spent eight days aboard the Soviet Salyut 6 space station conducting scientific experiments.
Biographical data adapted from Wikipedia’s article on Pham Tuan (CC BY-SA 4.0).