specialists from intercosmos selected four vietnamese pilots.em was to become the main astronaut, and the other a backup. famtouan was lucky again. wearing a spacesuit with badges with stripes on both sides of the vietnamese flag. for the first time i experienced an indescribable feeling. i looked at myself in the mirror. it seemed to me that i saw another person. vietnamese pilots trained for a year and a half, learned to survive during an emergency landing, and spent hours in icy water. vietnamese cosmonaut training. we flew into space immediately after the war with america, the soviet union provided us with great assistance in the war, thanks to which the vietnamese people won, but now we are together we're flying to kos. engaged in peaceful research work in space. in addition to photographing the territory of vietnam, for accurate cartography, pham thuan on the salyut 6 space station also conducted an experiment, atypical for a military pilot, to grow the azola aquatic fern in zero gravity. and the experiment was precisely to investigate how