Chang-Díaz was awarded the "Buzz Aldrin Quadrennial Space Award" by The Explorers Club
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Franklin Chang-Díaz
Franklin Ramon Chang-Díaz is a Costa Rican mechanical engineer, physicist, and former NASA astronaut. He is the sole founder and CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company as well as a member of the Cummins' board of directors. He became a U. S. citizen in 1977.
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science · American astronaut and entrepreneur (born 1950) · physicist · astronaut · engineer · also Franklin Chang-Díaz, Franklin Chang Diaz, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Chang-Díaz
Born 5 April 1950 · Q360433
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2012· 1 entry
In a ceremony that took place in the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2008).
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2003· 1 entry
Won NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2003).
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1990· 1 entry
Won NASA Exceptional Service Medal (1990).
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1989· 1 entry
Won NASA Space Flight Medal (1989).
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1986· 1 entry
Franklin Chang-Díaz was one of twelve recipients of the Medal of Liberty
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1980· 1 entry
And first flew aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-61-C in 1986
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1979· 1 entry
Chang-Díaz was responsible for developing a novel technique that used an inertial fusion reactor chamber to accurately align fuel pellets to collide with one another in order to create a fusion event
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1978· 1 entry
Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1978).
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1973· 1 entry
Studied at University of Connecticut (1973).
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1951· 1 entry
“The Free Market and Its Enemies”
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1950· 2 entries
To Ramón Ángel Chang Morales, an oil worker whose own father fled from China during the Boxer Rebellion, and María Eugenia Díaz
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Born 1950-04-05.
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1903· 1 entry
“Money, with all its colorlessness and indifference, becomes the common denominator of all values; irreparably it hollows out the core of things, their individuality, their specific value, and their incomparability. All things float with equal specific gravity in the constantly moving stream of money. All things lie on the same level and differ from one another only in the size of the area which they cover. Georg Simmel, “The Metropolis and Modern Life”
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