Franklin Chang Diaz
Franklin Ramón Chang-Díaz (born April 5, 1950) is a Costa Rican-American engineer, physicist and former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions, making him the record holder as of 2008 for the most spaceflights (a record he shares with Jerry L. Ross). He was the third Latin American to go into space, (first Latin American was Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez from Cuba in 1980, and second was Rodolfo Neri Vela from Mexico in 1985) and is the first naturalized US citizen to become an astronaut.[5] He is a member of the NASA Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Spaceflights
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 STS-61C MSP 12.01. - 18.01.1986 6d 02h 03m
2 STS-34 MSP 18.10. - 23.10.1989 4d 23h 39m
3 STS-46 MSP 31.07. - 08.08.1992 7d 23h 15m
4 STS-60 MSP 03.02. - 11.02.1994 8d 07h 09m
5 STS-75 MSP 22.02. - 09.03.1996 15d 17h 41m
6 STS-91 MSP 02.06. - 12.06.1998 9d 19h 54m
7 STS-111 MSP 05.06. - 19.06.2002 13d 20h 35m
Total 66d 18h 16m
