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Franklin Chang-Díaz was born on April 5, 1950, in San José, Costa Rica. His father was Chinese and his mother was Costa Rican. Chang-Díaz wanted to become an astronaut since he was little.
He finished high school in Costa Rica, and went to the USA to study more. After he graduated from learning English in 1969, he went on to study mechanical engineering at the University of Connecticut and graduated in 1973. He also completed a Doctorate in applied plasma physics in 1977.
Chang-Diaz was selected to be an astronaut candidate by NASA in 1980 and to join the space program in the same year. He went on his first space mission on the Columbian 1996 and continued traveling into space on six other spaceflights.
After spending more than 1600 hours in outer space, he retired in 2005 and was included into the NASA Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2012.
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After retiring, he became a space entrepreneur and found the company Ad Astra Rocket, which develops space technology known as the VASIMR® plasma engine and has operations in both Texas and Costa Rica.
In 1984, Chang-Díaz married Peggy Marguerite Doncaster and had four daughters. Most of Chang-Díaz’s extended family still resides in Costa Rica.

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