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Franklin Ramón Chang Díaz (born April 5, 1950) is a Costa Rican-American mechanical engineer, physicist and former NASA astronaut. He became an American citizen in 1977.〔, ''Wired Science'', November 14, 2007.〕 He is of Chinese (paternal grandfather) and Costa Rican Spanish (maternal side) descent.〔(NASA biography ) NASA, August 2005.〕 Chang Díaz is currently president and CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company.〔(Ad Astra Rocket Company – About us ), company website, accessed 2010-03-10〕 He is a veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions, making him the record holder as of 2014 for the most spaceflights (a record he shares with Jerry L. Ross). He was the third Latin American to go into space.〔 The first Latin American to go into space was Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez from Cuba in 1980, and second was Rodolfo Neri Vela from Mexico in 1985.〕 Chang Díaz is a member of the NASA Astronaut Hall of Fame. ==Family and education== Franklin Ramón Chang Díaz was born in San José, Costa Rica on April 5, 1950 to a father of Chinese descent, Ramón Ángel Chang Morales (born 1919), an oil worker whose own father fled China during the Boxer Rebellion.〔(Chang-Díaz, Franklin R.: 1950—: Astronaut, Physicist ) Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved: 2012-05-05.〕 His mother is Costa Rican, María Eugenia Díaz Romero (born 1927). One of six children, he has a younger sister, Sonia Rosa (born December 1952), and his mother, brothers, and sisters live in Costa Rica. His elder daughters are Jean Elizabeth (born December 1973), and Sonia Rosa (born March 1978) who is a member of the Massachusetts Senate. He married Peggy Marguerite Doncaster in the United States on 17 December 1984 and his younger daughters are Lidia Aurora (born March 1988) and Miranda Karina (July 1995),〔(Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz – Keynote Speaker ) Babson. Retrieved: 2012-05-05.〕 both born in Houston, Texas.〔(Consultas de hechos y actos civiles y electorales ) Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones. Retrieved: 2012-05-05. 〕〔(La familia Díaz de San José ) La Nación. Retrieved: 2012-05-05. 〕〔(Space Shuttle Mission STS-75 Press Kit ) NASA. February 1996.〕〔(Biographical Data: Franklin R. Chang-Dìaz (Ph.D.) ) NASA. August 2005.〕 His early studies of elementary school course Father Juan de Barnuevo in Altagracia de Orituco, Guarico state, Venezuela. He graduated from (Colegio de La Salle ) in San José in November 1967, then moved to the United States to finish his high school education at Hartford Public High School in Connecticut, in 1969.〔 He went on to attend the University of Connecticut, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering and joined the federal TRIO (Student Support Services ) program in 1973.〔(Spacefacts Biography of Franklin Chang-Diaz ). ''Spacefacts''. Retrieved July 18, 2011.〕 He then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a Doctor of Science in applied plasma physics in 1977.〔 For his graduate research at MIT, Chang Díaz worked in the field of fusion technology and plasma-based rocket propulsion.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Franklin Chang Díaz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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