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http://www.biography.com/people/franklin-chang-d%C3%ADaz-39320 Notes
 * He was born April 5, 1950 in San Jose, Costa Rica.
 * He had four children.
 * He's an astronaut.
 * Graduated from Colegio De La Salle.
 * He also worked as a research assistant in the Physics Department.
 * He is an Adjunct Professor of Physics at Rice University and the University of Houston.
 * He worked for 2-1/2 years as a house manager.
 * Dr. Chang-Díaz retired from NASA in July 2005.
 * In January 1987, he started the Astronaut Science Colloquium Program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Chang_D%C3%ADaz Notes
 * He attended elementary school at Father Juan de Barnuevo.
 * For his graduate research at MIT.
 * Chang Díaz was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA.
 * He encourages young people to get motivated about environmental issues.
 * In addition, Chang Díaz is an Adjunct Professor in Physics and Astronomy.
 * He is currently on the board of directors of Cummins.
 * Also, due to his career and scientific success, he has been decorated multiple times in Costa Rica and named Honor Citizen by the national legislature.
 * In 2014, Chang Díaz was awarded the Buzz Aldrin Quadrennial Space Award.
 * Scientist Wernher Von Braun told him to go to America to study.

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/diaz.html Notes
 * In 1967, he moved to the U.S. and later studied at the University of Connecticut and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 * In 1986, he made his first mission aboard //Galileo //.
 * He as the first Hispanic-American astronaut.
 * Chang-Díaz made seven spaceflights.
 * He served as director of NASA’s Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory.
 * He is a role model that has set a very high standard for young Hispanic men and women to follow.
 * From October 1984 to August 1985, he was leader of the astronaut support team at the Kennedy Space Center.
 * He has logged over 1600 hours in space, including 19 hours and 31 minutes in three space walks.

http://www.adastrarocket.com/aarc/Franklin Notes
 * The crew on this mission also mapped atmospheric ozone levels with the Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet.
 * Dr. Chang's innovation on the plasma rocket propulsion principle is a hybrid system using both plasma and ordinary gas.
 * His paternal grandfather, who was Chinese, moved to Costa Rica at the turn of the century.
 * While working as a physicist in Massachusetts he was active in several community projects, serving at one time as an adviser in a rehabilitation program for Hispanic drug addicts.
 * That was all the encouragement he needed. Relatives in Connecticut agreed to give him a home, and Franklin enrolled in public high school in Hartford.
 * States in 1968 with a one-way airplane ticket, $50 in his pocket, a suitcase, and a dream to fly in space.