NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Betty Humphery
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
256/544-0034

Photo release: 07-066


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To get to where they are today, Drs. Huu, left, and Diep Trinh have traveled farther than most -- fleeing war-torn Vietnam, overcoming language and financial barriers to get their education, and making the leap from war refugees to U.S. citizens. They're a husband-and-wife team of engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The Trinhs have been married – and working for NASA – for more than two decades. Today, Huu is an aerospace engineer, working as the propulsion lead on a “LOX-methane” engine -- fueled by liquid oxygen and liquid methane -- being developed for potential use in a lunar-ascent vehicle. Diep Trinh is a structural materials engineer at the Marshall Center's Material Processes Laboratory, where she develops and tests materials for the space shuttle's solid rocket motor. (NASA/MSFC/D. Higgenbotham)


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