National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Taylor Gun-Jin Wang
United States of America
Retired
Biography
/01Taylor 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.
Type
Government
Age
85
Date of Birth
June 16, 1940
First Flight
April 29, 1985
Last Flight
April 29, 1985
Career Stats
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Flights
1
Landings
0
Spacewalks
P7DT8M42S
Time in Space