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His two eldest daughters with his ex-wife Candice Chang, include Sonia Rosa, who is a member of the Massachusetts Senate. [8][9] He married Dr. Peggy Marguerite Doncaster (née Stafford, of Alexandria, Louisiana), in the United States, on December 17, 1984. They have two daughters, [10] both born in Houston, Texas. [11][12][13][7]
Chang-Diaz is married to Peggy Marguerite Doncaster and has four children. He was the first Costa Rican Hispanic astronaut to go into space. He is an advocate for environmental protection and had a part in the movie 'Odyssey 2050' which encouraged action on climate change.
Franklin Chang-Díaz is a Costa Rican-born American physicist and the first Hispanic astronaut. Chang-Díaz aspired to be an astronaut as a young child. In 1967 his parents sent him from Costa Rica to live with relatives in Connecticut.
As a physicist, engineer, entrepreneur, and astronaut, Franklin Chang-Díaz has made significant contributions to space exploration. Born in San José, Costa Rica, he developed a passion for science and space at an early age.
Franklin R. Chang-Díaz. Dr. Chang-Díaz is a veteran of seven space shuttle missions and holds a doctorate in applied plasma physics. His work as a scientist astronaut helped foster closer ties between the astronaut corp and the science community.
FRANKLIN R. CHANG-DÍAZ (PH.D.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) PERSONAL DATA: Born April 5, 1950, in San José, Costa Rica, to the late Mr. Ramón A. ChangMorales and Mrs. Mar- ía Eugenia Díaz De Chang. Married to the former Peggy Marguerite Doncaster of Alexandria, Louisiana. Four children. He enjoys music, glider planes, soccer, scubadiving and h ...
Franklin was born in 1950 in Costa Rica to a part-Chinese father and Costa Rican mother. Raised in the Cold War era, Franklin was captivated by the Soviet Union’s Sputnik satellite and the beginnings of space exploration.
After graduating from high school in Costa Rica, Chang Díaz worked at a bank for a year to save money. In 1968, on a one-way ticket purchased by his father, he moved to Connecticut to live with...
Chang-Díaz: I come from a family of immigrants—my grandparents and parents immigrated to and from Costa Rica from their own countries. My paternal grandfather immigrated to Costa Rica from...
Family and education. Franklin Ramón Chang-Díaz was born in San José, Costa Rica on April 5, 1950, to Ramón Ángel Chang Morales, an oil worker whose own father fled from China during the Boxer Rebellion, [6] and María Eugenia Díaz.