Eugene H. Trinh

• STS -50 ( 1992)

Eugene Huu - Chau "Gene " Trinh ( born September 14, 1950 in Saigon, Vietnam ) is a former American astronaut.

Trinh grew up in Paris and lived in the United States since 1968. He received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1972 and applied physics from Columbia University and in 1974 or 1975 depending on a Masters and a PhD in 1977 in applied physics from Yale University.

Trinh operational 20 years of research at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In 1999 he came to NASA to become the Director of the Physical Sciences Research Division in the Biological and Physical Research Enterprise at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC Since December 11, 2005 he is director of the NASA Management Office ( NMO) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

STS -51- B

Trinh was an alternate payload specialist for Taylor Wang, who flew aboard the space shuttle Challenger to a Spacelab mission of the European Space Agency ( ESA) on 29 April 1985.

STS -50

During the mission, STS -50 was Trinh payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia. The mission launched on 25 June 1992. The primary payload was the Microgravity Laboratory USML -1, a manned Spacelab module. There have been numerous experiments for the study of crystal growth of zeolite, the surface tension of physics and human physiology.

Private

Eugene Trinh is married and has one child.