Proud of the second Vietnamese to fly into space

Trinh Huu Chau was the great pride of Vietnamese people when he completed his journey into space with the famous shuttle Shuttle Columbia.

You may not know this, but the whole US knows this, more than half the world knows this. On the cover of many American magazines has appeared Zheng Huu Chau as an Asian feat at NASA (US Aerospace Agency).

Eugene Trinh (birth name Trinh Huu Chau) was born on September 24, 1950 in Saigon. He is the youngest son of civil engineer Trinh Ngoc Sang. In 1953, he and his family settled in France, where this is the premise to develop the career of this talented engineer.

Trinh Huu Chau is being invited by many famous universities in the United States
and teaching.

Trinh Huu Chau attended high school at Michelet School (Paris) and obtained his degree in 1968. After that, he went to the United States to study manufacturing machinery and applied physics at Columbia University, graduating in 1972. In two consecutive years 1974 and 1975, this Saigon boy received a scholarship and successfully defended his master's thesis of science and philosophy. Chau went on to study for his doctorate and in 1977 obtained a degree in applied physics from the famous Yale University .

In 1979, NASA looked at Eugene as a rare talent and was immediately invited to work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. During this time, he ended his postdoctoral course and participated in research activities of the California Institute of Technology under NASA's support.

Trinh Huu Chau is second from left with the Columbia STS - 50 crew

In 1983, NASA chose him to train as a propulsion specialist for his Spacelab 3 space lab. He became an alternate for the famous pusher Taylor Wang.

August 1990, the name Eugene Trinh was filled in the list of propellant research members at the shuttle's micro gravity laboratory.On June 25, 1992, after completing two years of training, he was on the space shuttle Columbia STS - 50 flying into space. Thus, Trinh Huu Chau became the second Vietnamese to enter the universe after Pham Tuan did the same miracle 12 years earlier (1980).

Eugene Trinh and a few members of the historic Columbia crew in 1992

NASA website said STS - 50 flight of Eugene Trinh lasted 13 days, 19 hours, 30 minutes and 4 seconds. During this flight, at the DPM's physics compartment, he performed and monitored at the same time three experiments on thrust, liquid drop and unmanaged fluid control techniques.

To date, more than 40 scientific works of Trinh Huu Chau have been published in major American and European scientific journals. He is a member of space research associations such as Sigma Xi Research Foundation, the American Physical Society, the American Society of Aeronautics and Space, the American Association for the Study of Materials, the Discovery Association. space . NASA awarded him a medal of astronauts, a special scientific achievement medal and four patents with his colleagues.

Photograph of an introduction to Trinh Huu Chau at NASA's official website.

He has also received seven NASA technology awards from 1985 to the present, including a low-gravity measuring instrument placed in NASA's KC-135 jet.