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"Operation Moonshot," a U.S. educational group seeking reconciliation between the U.S. and Vietnam, hosted a delegation of sixteen Vietnamese United Nations diplomats and their families on tours of space-related sites in Florida from April 20th to the 24th, 2003. Minister Counselor and Deputy Representative Mr. Ngo Duc Thang headed the delegation on a tour by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the John F. Kennedy Space Center, which included the award-winning Apollo/Saturn V Center and the International Space Station Center. Also on their itinerary was a tour of the Daytona Beach campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU).
"Operation Moonshot: An American and Vietnamese Journey from War to Peace to Space" is an educational project of reconciliation and cooperation between citizens, veteran writers, pilots, space explorers, and U.S. and Vietnamese diplomats. The project was conceived in 1996. It is based upon the war memoir of U.S. Vietnam War veteran, Mr.William Broyles, Jr., author of "Brothers In Arms: A Journey from War to Peace," published in 1986. In his description of his 1984 trip back to Vietnam, Mr. Broyles recounts meeting Vietnamese Cosmonaut Colonel Pham Tuan, which inspired the project "Operation Moonshot" twelve years later. As Mr. Bobby Muller, President of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) once said "When you are standing on the Moon, looking back at the Earth, there is no United States of America, no Vietnam-there are no countries at all. There is only the EARTH with WE the HUMAN FAMILY living upon it!"
