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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 ]
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Franklin Chang-Diaz (BS, 1973) – NASA astronaut and physicist [1] Carol Lynn Curchoe – molecular biologist; Janet Frost (Ph.D., 1994) – Biochemist and professor emeritus [2] David Grimaldi – entomologist; Benjamin Hsiao – materials scientist [3] David Lee – Nobel Prize-winning physicist; Richard Mastracchio – NASA astronaut and ...
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 ...
"Agreement to Commercialize Advanced NASA Rocket Concept; Former Astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz to Lead Effort" (Press release). Johnson Space Center. January 23, 2006. J06-009; Naone, Erica (September 25, 2007). "Rocket scientist Franklin Chang Diaz talks about finding the power and propulsion required to colonize space".
Franklin Chang-Diaz, first launched 12 January 1986, was born in Costa Rica, but was an American citizen when he went into space [5] Musa Manarov, first launched 21 December 1987, was the first Azerbaijan-born man in space. At the time, Azerbaijan was a part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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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]