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12 Groundbreaking Asian Columbians You Should Know

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Trinh joined NASA in 1979 as a Senior Research Scientist in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory before becoming a Payload Specialist crew member on the STS-50/United States Microgravity Lab-1 Space Shuttle flight in 1992, which made him the first Vietnamese American astronaut in space. Presidential Medal in 2001.