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STS-91. STS-111. Mission insignia. Franklin Ramón Chang-Díaz (born April 5, 1950, San José, Costa Rica) [1] is an 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 Cummins ' board of directors. [3] He became an American citizen in 1977.
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. She graduated from the University of Virginia. She worked as one of Senator Cheryl Jacques' legislative aides and was a campaign manager for MassEquality.
STS-61-C was the 24th mission of NASA 's Space Shuttle program, and the seventh mission of Space Shuttle Columbia. It was the first time that Columbia, the first space-rated Space Shuttle orbiter to be constructed, had flown since STS-9. The mission launched from Florida 's Kennedy Space Center on January 12, 1986, and landed six days later on ...
The right fielder finished his career as one of just 11 players with 3,000 hits, and he also turned in 240 home runs and 1,305 RBIs for a career batting average of .317. On New Year's Eve 1972 ...
A childhood idol was Costa Rican astronaut Franklin Chang-Díaz. After a 2004 bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Costa Rica, she traveled to the US for a master's degree at Wright State University, in 2007, and then to The Netherlands for a doctorate at Leiden University, focusing on condensed-matter physics.
Ellen Ochoa (born May 10, 1958) is an American engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. [1] In 1993, Ochoa became the first Latina woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. [2] Ochoa became director of the center upon the retirement of the previous director ...
The company was incorporated on January 14, 2005. The President and CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company is retired astronaut Franklin Chang Díaz. The company has been working on Chang Díaz's concept of the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket, known by its acronym VASIMR. The VASIMR is intended to achieve several advantages over current ...
The 2012 inductees were Franklin Chang-Diaz, Kevin Chilton and Charles Precourt. Bonnie Dunbar, Curt Brown and Eileen Collins were inducted in 2013, and Shannon Lucid and Jerry Ross comprised the 2014 class. Those inducted in 2015 were John Grunsfeld, Steven Lindsey, Kent Rominger, and Rhea Seddon.