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Taylor Gun-Jin Wang

NASA · American · Government · Retired

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Career record

Flights
1
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
7d
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0

Biography

Taylor Gun-Jin Wang is a Chinese-born American scientist and in 1985, became the first person of Chinese origin to go into space. While an employee of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Wang was a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51-B.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Launches

Born 1940-06-16