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Crossed Kármán Line
This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.
First Man from Vietnam
This astronaut is the first man from Vietnam to go to space.
WIKIPEDIA EXCERPT
Phạm Tuân is a retired Vietnam Air Force aviator. He became the first Vietnamese citizen and the first non-soviet Asian in space when he flew aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Interkosmos Research Cosmonaut. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.