Flight record
first and only flightFirst and only flight year 1985.
1Flight
7dTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
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.
Flights
- Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-51-BApril 29, 1985
Born 1940-06-16