ASTRONAUT

Franklin Chang Díaz

1950 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franklin Chang Díaz has received more than 400,306 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Franklin Chang Díaz is the 156th most popular astronaut (down from 119th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Costa Rica (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Costa Rican Astronaut.

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  • 400k

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  • 56.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Franklin Chang Díaz ranks 156 out of 556. Before him are Tatyana Kuznetsova, Peggy Whitson, Vladimir Kovalyonok, Thomas Reiter, William Shepherd, and Chiaki Mukai. After him are Ronald McNair, Eileen Collins, Anatoly Artsebarsky, Valentin Lebedev, Owen Garriott, and Michael López-Alegría.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Franklin Chang Díaz ranks 312. Before him are Faouzi Benzarti, Oswaldo de Oliveira, Héctor Baley, Natalya Bondarchuk, Terry Bozzio, and Renato Zero. After him are Ewa Aulin, Shabana Azmi, Carlo Verdone, Ronald McNair, Marshall Manesh, and Ahmet Altan.

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In Costa Rica

Among people born in Costa Rica, Franklin Chang Díaz ranks 13 out of 134. Before him are Abel Pacheco (1933), Adolfo Díaz (1875), Luis Guillermo Solís (1958), Rodrigo Chaves Robles (1961), Giannina Facio (1955), and Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900). After him are Rodrigo Carazo Odio (1926), José María Castro Madriz (1818), Otilio Ulate Blanco (1891), Federico Tinoco Granados (1868), Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (1940), and Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (1900).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Costa Rica

Among astronauts born in Costa Rica, Franklin Chang Díaz ranks 1. 

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