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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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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]
The Mason family of Virginia is a historically significant American political family of English origin, whose prominent members are known for their accomplishments in politics, business, and the military. The progenitor of the Mason family, George Mason I (1629–1686), [1] [2] arrived at Norfolk, Virginia on the ship Assurance in 1652.
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 ...
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 ...
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January 12 – STS-61-C: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin Chang Díaz. January 20 – The first federal Martin Luther King Jr. Day, honoring Martin Luther King Jr., is observed.