Franklin Chang Díaz

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Franklin Ramón Chang Díaz is a Costa Rican Chinese American mechanical engineer, physicist, former NASA astronaut. He is the founder and current CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company as well as a member of Cummins' board of directors. He became an American citizen in 1977. He is of Chinese (paternal side) and Costa Rican Spanish (maternal side) descent. He is a veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions, tieing the record, as of 2018 for the most spaceflights (a record set by Jerry L. Ross). He was the third Latin American, but the first Latin American immigrant NASA Astronaut selected to go into space. Chang Díaz is a member of the NASA Astronaut Hall of Fame.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

• Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-111Mission Specialist · SuccessJune 5, 2002
• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-91Mission Specialist · SuccessJune 2, 1998
• Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-75Mission Specialist · SuccessFebruary 22, 1996
• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-60Mission Specialist · SuccessFebruary 3, 1994
• Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-46Mission Specialist · SuccessJuly 31, 1992
• Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-34Mission Specialist · SuccessOctober 18, 1989
• Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-61-CMission Specialist · SuccessJanuary 12, 1986

• STS-111 EVA 37h 17m2002-06-13
• STS-111 EVA 27h 14m2002-06-11
• STS-111 EVA 17h 14m2002-06-09