Franklin Chang-Diaz is a famous latino astronaut. He was born on April 5, 1950 in San Jose, Costa Rica. He likes hiking, soccer, scuba-diving, glider planes, and music. He has a PhD in applied plasma physics from MIT and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from UConn.
He has gone on seven different trips into space and loged on 1,601 hours in space including 19 hours and31 minuits on spacewalks. The six missions he went on were the STS 61-C (1986), STS-34 (1989), STS-46 (1992), STS-60 (1994), STS-75 (1996), STS-91 (1998) and STS-111 (2002).
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