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Apr 05, 1950 San José, San José Province, Costa Rica 74 years old
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About Franklin Chang Díaz
- Franklin Ramón Chang Díaz (April 5, 1950) is a Costa Rican 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 Costa Rican Spanish (maternal side) and Chinese (paternal side) descent. He is a veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions, tying 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.
