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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 ]
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.
Franklin Chang-Diaz (born 1950), Physicist (7 flights) [19] STS-61-C Columbia [ 19 ] — January 1986 — Mission Specialist 1 — Deployed Ku-1 communications satellite STS-34 Atlantis [ 19 ] — October 1989 — Mission Specialist 1 — Deployed the Galileo probe
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Franklin Chang-Diaz, former NASA astronaut; Justin Cronin, author and professor of English; Rajdeep Dasgupta, professor of Planetary Studies; Gerald R. Dickens, professor of Earth Science; Edward Djerejian, diplomat; Jack Dongarra, 2021 Turing Award Winner and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science; Elaine Howard Ecklund, professor of Sociology
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.
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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]