Taylor Wang

Taylor Gun-Jin Wang
王赣俊
Born (1940-06-16) June 16, 1940 (age 84)
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles (BS, MS, PhD)
OccupationScientist
Space career
JPL Payload Specialist
Time in space
7d 00h 08m
MissionsSTS-51-B
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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.


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