Eugene Trinh, born September 14, 1950 in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), South Vietnam, is the first Vietnamese-American in space! Although born in South Vietnam, his ancestry is Chinese, since his great-grandfather immigrated from China in the last 1800's. He moved with his parents to Paris, France when he was two and graduated from college in 1968. He came to America and received degrees in Columbia University, including a PhD from Yale in 1975.
He served as a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-50) in June-July 1992. It was his only mission with NASA.
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