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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 ]
Franklin Chang-Diaz April 5, 1950 ... Died October 3, 2009. Marcos Berríos 1984
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.
After the name, denotes those who died during their first spaceflight. [nb 1] † After the name, denotes those who died during a subsequent spaceflight. [nb 1] ⊗ After the name, denotes those whose first spaceflight had begun and was clearly intended [nb 2] to cross 100 km (62 mi), but failed to do so. Linked country
The driver, Johnson Chang, 49, now faces a felony charge of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence involving the Oct. 2 crash on Watts Valley Road that killed 51-year-old Adela Luisa Santana ...
Franklin was the the fourth inmate to die in the Franklin County jail since November. The most recent was July 1. Raymond said the investigations are continuing into all the cases, but he wanted ...
Akron: Judith Resnik (1949–1986), died aboard Challenger — STS-41-D Bryan : Terence T. Henricks — STS-44 , STS-55 , STS-70 , STS-78 Cambridge : John Glenn (1921–2016), first American in Earth orbit, U.S. Senator, and became the first person older than 70 to make a spaceflight — Mercury 6 , STS-95