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Franklin Chang Díaz

1950 - Today

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Franklin Ramon Chang-Díaz (born April 5, 1950, San José, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican-American mechanical engineer, physicist, and former NASA astronaut. He is the sole founder and CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company as well as a member of the Cummins' board of directors. He became an American citizen in 1977. He is a veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions, tying the record, as of 2021 for the most spaceflights (a record set two months earlier by Jerry L. Ross). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franklin Chang Díaz is the 137th most popular astronaut (up from 156th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Costa Rica (up from 13th in 2019) and the most popular Costa Rican Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Franklin Chang Díaz ranks 137 out of 556. Before him are Valery Ryumin, Boris Yegorov, Musa Manarov, Alfred Worden, Peggy Whitson, and Christina Koch. After him are Boris Volynov, Vance D. Brand, Sidney M. Gutierrez, Tatyana Kuznetsova, Rusty Schweickart, and Georgy Grechko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Franklin Chang Díaz ranks 259. Before him are Amy Madigan, Wei Jingsheng, Ann Wilson, Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Arthur Roche, and Jeff Conaway. After him are N. Chandrababu Naidu, Vladimir Megre, Ángel María Villar, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Mariano García Remón, and Yang Jiechi.

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In Costa Rica

Among people born in Costa Rica, Franklin Chang Díaz ranks 8 out of 134. Before him are Chavela Vargas (1919), Laura Chinchilla (1959), Felicia Montealegre Bernstein (1922), Keylor Navas (1986), Abel Pacheco (1933), and Luis Guillermo Solís (1958). After him are Christiana Figueres (1956), Rodrigo Chaves Robles (1961), Juan Mora Fernández (1784), Harry Shum Jr. (1982), José María Castro Madriz (1818), and Rodrigo Carazo Odio (1926).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Costa Rica

Among astronauts born in Costa Rica, Franklin Chang Díaz ranks 1. 

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