Pham Tuan

Phạm Tuân 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 was launched aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Interkosmos research cosmonaut. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

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1947  Wikimedia, Wikidata
airman, astronaut, military officer, Hero of Labour, Hero of the People's Armed Forces, Military Exploit Order, Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration", Order of Hồ Chí Minh, Feat Order, Friendship Order, Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Hero of the Soviet Union, Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Glorious Fighter Medal, Glorious Soldier Medal, Order of Lenin, Vietnam, 

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  Soyuz 36 ⓘ
  crewed flight of the Soyuz programme

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  Soyuz 37 ⓘ
  crewed flight of the Soyuz programme

Vietnam, 

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1947 Pham Tuan

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1980 Soyuz 36

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1980 Soyuz 37

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Phạm Tuân in 1980

VICTOR GORBATKO & TUÂN PHAM (SOYUZ 37)

Phạm Tuân in 1980

VICTOR GORBATKO & TUÂN PHAM (SOYUZ 37)

Intercosmos program 1980 - Y & T n. 4717/19

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Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
event	spaceflight	1980	Soyuz 36	human spaceflight	Wikidata
event	spaceflight	1980	Soyuz 37	human spaceflight, Soyuz 7K-T	Wikidata
commons	image		Phạm Tuân in 1980		Commons
commons	image		VICTOR GORBATKO & TUÂN PHAM (SOYUZ 37)		Commons
commons	image		Phạm Tuân in 1980		Commons
commons	image		VICTOR GORBATKO & TUÂN PHAM (SOYUZ 37)		Commons
commons	image		Intercosmos program 1980 - Y & T n. 4717/19		Commons
commons	image		Postage stamp		Commons
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