Taylor Gun-Jin Wang | |
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王赣俊 | |
Born | |
Education | University of California, Los Angeles (BS, MS, PhD) |
Occupation | Scientist |
Space career | |
JPL Payload Specialist | |
Time in space | 7d 00h 08m |
Missions | STS-51-B |
Mission insignia |
Taylor Gun-Jin Wang (simplified Chinese: 王赣骏; traditional Chinese: 王贛駿; pinyin: Wáng Gànjùn; born June 16, 1940) 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.