Vietnam is the first Asian astronaut to arrive at the Japanese space station
The Space Agency opens, but the astronaut production line is cut off after Lee So-yeon.
[이데일리 강민구 기자] It is a symbolic indicator that astronauts are talented people with physical strength and intelligence. Astronauts who are selected out of tens of thousands of applicants must also pass training to prepare for the harsh space environment. Considering the safety of manned spaceflight, it is more expensive than unmanned space exploration, and it also shows the power of the country in that it requires paying a huge amount of money to train astronauts.
Official portraits of astronaut Pham Tuan (left) and astronaut Ellison Onizuka (Photo = NASA)
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On the 27th, the Korea Aerospace Exploration Agency, which has been a long-awaited dream of the aerospace industry, will be opened, but Korea has not produced an astronaut since astronaut Lee So-yeon went into space in 2008. Meanwhile, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is attracting attention by highlighting astronauts of Asian and Pacific descent to commemorate ‘Asian and Pacific American Cultural Heritage Month’ in May.
So far, astronauts have been produced mainly by space powers such as Russia (the former Soviet Union), the United States, and Canada. In the year 2000, Asian-Pacific Americans are also becoming seriously active.
Asian and Asian American astronauts who have lived and performed missions on the International Space Station since the 2000s (Data = National Aeronautics and Space Administration).
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According to a list released by NASA, Japan has produced many of its own astronauts. Astronauts from Korea, Kazakhstan, and the United Arab Emirates were also included. If mixed race is included, the number of astronauts come from India, Iran, China, Taiwan, etc. The first Asian to go into space was Pham Tuan from Vietnam. A former Air Force lieutenant colonel, he went into space aboard Soyuz 37 with Colonel Viktor Gorbatko in 1980. At the time, he stayed at the former Soviet Union’s space station Salute 6 and spent eight days conducting scientific experiments. The first Asian American astronaut is Ellison Onizuka. Born in Hawaii, USA, of second-generation Japanese descent, he was selected as an astronaut in 1978 and flew on the space shuttle Discovery mission in 1985.
In Korea, astronauts Mark Polanski and Lee So-yeon, who are of mixed race, were included in the list. Astronaut Mark Polanski is half Korean, born to a Korean mother and a white father, and has successfully performed major space missions, including serving as captain of the space shuttle Discovery in 2006.
Among the pure Korean nations, there is astronaut Lee So-yeon. Astronaut Lee So-yeon was selected as an astronaut in 2007, overcoming a competition rate of 36,000 to 1. The following year, Korea became the 36th country to produce an astronaut by successfully conducting a space experiment while staying at the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz Russian.
However, when he suddenly left to study in the United States in 2012, a ‘scam controversy’ arose over the astronaut production project, which cost 26 billion won, and manned space exploration has not made any significant progress since then.
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