The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Costa Rica
This page contains a list of the greatest Costa Rican Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 556 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Costa Rica. This makes Costa Rica the birth place of the 32nd most number of Astronauts behind Hungary, and Azerbaijan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Costa Rican Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Costa Rican Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Franklin Chang Díaz (b. 1950)
With an HPI of 49.41, Franklin Chang Díaz is the most famous Costa Rican Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.
Franklin Ramón Chang-Díaz (born April 5, 1950, San José, Costa Rica) is an American 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 an American citizen in 1977. He is a veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions, tying the record, as of 2021 for the most spaceflights (a record set two months earlier by Jerry L. Ross). He was the third Latin American, but the first Latin American immigrant NASA Astronaut selected to go into space. Chang-Díaz is a member of the NASA Astronaut Hall of Fame.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Costa Rican astronauts born between 1950 and 1950. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Costa Rican astronauts include Franklin Chang Díaz.
