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Franklin Ramon Chang-Díaz (born April 5, 1950, San José, Costa Rica) [1] is a Costa Rican-American mechanical engineer, physicist, and former NASA astronaut. He is the sole founder and CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company [ 2 ] as well as a member of the Cummins ' board of directors. [ 3 ]
1.49 West Virginia. 1.50 Wisconsin. 2 American astronauts born in other countries. ... San José: Franklin Chang Díaz — STS-34, STS-46, STS-60, STS-61-C, STS-75, ...
STS-61-C's seven-person crew included the first Costa Rican-born astronaut, Franklin Chang-Díaz, the second African-American shuttle pilot, Charles Bolden, and the second sitting politician to fly in space, Rep. Bill Nelson (D-FL). Both Bolden and Nelson would also later go on to become Administrators of NASA.
Of this group, Franklin Chang-Diaz would become the first Hispanic-American in space, Michael Smith would perish in the Challenger disaster, and John Blaha would fly aboard the Mir space station. Both Jerry Ross and Chang-Diaz currently jointly hold the record of number of crewed spaceflights flown, at seven.
The President and CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company is retired astronaut Franklin Chang-Díaz. [1] The company has been working on Chang-Díaz's concept of the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket, known by its acronym VASIMR. The VASIMR is intended to achieve several advantages over current chemical rocket designs, including lunar cargo ...
Sonia Chang-Díaz was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 31, 1978, the daughter of Franklin Chang-Díaz, a physicist who would be selected as a NASA astronaut in 1980. [1] [2] [3] She graduated from the University of Virginia. [4] She worked as one of Senator Cheryl Jacques' legislative aides and was a campaign manager for MassEquality. [5]
STS-34 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission using Atlantis.It was the 31st shuttle mission overall, and the fifth flight for Atlantis. [1] STS-34 launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on October 18, 1989, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on October 23, 1989.
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