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Costa Rican-American astronaut and entrepreneur (born 1950)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Chang and the second or maternal family name is Díaz.

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 the Cummins' board of directors.^[3] He became an American citizen in 1977.^[4]

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). He was the third Latin American, and the first Latin American immigrant NASA astronaut selected to go into space.^[5] Chang-Díaz is a member of NASA's Astronaut Hall of Fame.

Family and education

Franklin Ramón Chang-Díaz was born in San José, Costa Rica on April