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Taylor Gun-Jin Wang is a former astronaut from National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 1 spaceflight.
BIOGRAPHY
Taylor Gun-Jin Wang is a Chinese-born American scientist and in 1985, became the first person of Chinese origin to go into space. While an employee of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Wang was a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51-B.
PERSONAL DETAILS
NationalityUnited States of America
BornJune 16, 1940
AgencyNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
TypeGovernment
StatusFormer
First FlightApril 29, 1985
Last FlightApril 29, 1985
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