Vietnamese imprint in NASA achievements

Working for the US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) is the dream of scientists around the world. And the Vietnamese imprint has been featured in many of NASA's achievements over the past 40 years, from Dr. Nguyen Xuan Vinh with the orbital research to hundreds of Vietnamese experts of the next generation and also the dug gray matter. created from Vietnamese countryside.

Eugene H. Trinh (Trinh Huu Chau), sin

Jonathan Lee (Dien Le), born in 1959, a semiconductor physicist and structural material engineer (Photo: NaSa)

In 1950, in Saigon, Yale 1977 University of Applied Physics, astronaut on the shuttle Columbia 12 numbers STS-50 in 1992, flew to the Skylab space station during the 13-day-longest flight. in the whole shuttle program.

Jonathan Lee ( Dien Le ), born in 1959, semiconductor physicist and structural material engineer. Working for NASA since 1989, is the inventor of the aluminum-silion alloy for NASA, which is a high-strength material but very light and low cost.

Diep and Huu Trinh , husband and wife in Bac Lieu. Born 1963, currently a structural material engineer and Huu is an aviation engineer working at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. Diep participated in many projects, including the chemical analysis project and the surface of the telescope mirror using X-rays. And Huu specializes in safety technology for spacecraft.

Bui Tri Trong , born 1965 in Saigon. Stanford University aviation and space doctor. Officially working for NASA's Glenn Research Center since 1997 with a job starting as an aeronautical engineer. Currently working at Dryden Flight Research Center, specializing in research and testing of missiles.

Bruce Vu ( Thanh Vu ), PhD in aeronautical engineering at Mississippi State University in 1999. Officially working for NASA Marshall Center since 1988, specializing in computer simulation systems for kinetic research. liquid - movements of gases and liquids that can affect storage, assembly and launches of space shuttle. Currently working at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida, he researches how to use nanotechnology to make cells as small as cells.

If you have the opportunity to visit NASA's space conquest achievement gallery at NASA's Flight Control Center in Houston, Texas, you will see the name of a solemn Vietnamese person honoring: Church monk - mathematics doctor Nguyen Xuan Vinh . The time when the majority of Vietnamese people still ride bicycles, the studies of Nguyen Xuan Vinh by mathematical theories have drawn the flight routes for the spacecraft to the moon.

Bruce Vu (Thanh Vu), PhD in Mississippi State University University in aeronautical engineering in 1999 (Photo: NaSa)

NASA itself sponsored Nguyen Xuan Vinh to successfully research the optimal trajectory for spacecraft for his doctoral thesis. He was the first Vietnamese and also the first person at the University of Colorado to be awarded a doctorate in space science in 1962 with this project. The theories of Nguyen Xuan Vinh have made an important contribution to the Apollo spacecraft being able to reach the moon successfully and later applied to the recovery of shuttle spacecraft back to Earth.

We have not yet counted the total number of Vietnamese people working at NASA agencies, but only NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California has more than 100 Vietnamese experts . Eugene H. Trinh, astrophysicist ( Trinh Huu Chau ) works at NASA-JPL. Working with NASA-JPL, Dr. Nguyen Thanh Tien was awarded an outstanding medal by NASA for his important contributions to the Galileo program, which took Jupiter's spacecraft.

In the International Advisory Council on NASA-JPL's spatial data system, named Dr. Nguyen Manh Tien. Jonathan Lee (Dien Le) at Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama. These are just a few Vietnamese imprints of NASA of the generation of Vietnamese born in the 1950s - the second generation after Nguyen Xuan Vinh generation.

The generation born in the 1960s and later occupied the majority of the Vietnamese community of experts at NASA. Dr. Bui Tri Trong is currently working at the Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, specializing in research and testing of missiles.

Dr. Nguyen Quang Viet works for the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, to design and test diagnostic devices for rocket engines' high-pressure hydrogen combustion chambers. Dr. Peter Ve Tran (Tran Ve) is currently the director of the Pressure Vessel Program of Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Missouri .

In 2004, Dinh Ba Tien, who was only 25 years old at the time, was pursuing a doctoral program in computer science at Huddersfield University in England, winning hundreds of other candidates across the globe and being recruited into research programs. Rescue NASA's artificial intelligence to build self-propelled spacecraft control software.

Before going to England, Dinh Ba Tien was a lecturer of Ho Chi Minh City University of Science. Vietnamese imprints at NASA have started to have Vietnamese gray matter trained right here in Vietnam.