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Franklin Chang Diaz is one of many Hispanic - Americans that had problems moving in to the United States. He was born on April 5, 1950 in San Jose, Costa Rica. It is really hard to get used to a new culture and country. He wanted to become an astronaut sense he was a kid. He was the first Hispanic - American astronaut when he got older.Scientist Wernher Von Braun told him to go to America to study.He attended elementary school at Father Juan de Barnuevo.Graduated from Colegio De La Sall.He went to America just because Scientist Wernher Von Braun told him to go.(Franklin Chang Diaz Biography)

 One of his problems, of three I'm going to talk about is, when he came to America he only had $50.00, a suit case, and a one way airplane ticket. It is hard to live like that if you never lived like that.It is also hard to find a job. He is lucky Colegio De La Salle accepted him. He graduated and then Franklin Chang Díaz was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA.Dr. Chang - Díaz retired from NASA in July 2005.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.(Dr.Franklin Chang Diaz) He nearly flunked out at first, but as his English improved so did his grades, and by graduation he had won a scholarship to the University of Connecticut.But the scholarship was for United States citizens only, he discovered, and it took a special exception, granted by the Legislature, to allow him to attend the school. The exception was for one year only, but that was all I wanted, to get my foot in the door, he said in an interview. He won other scholarships to pay for the rest of his undergraduate study.He excelled in science and after graduation entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he not only won the required credentials - American citizenship and selection as an astronaut - but helped to develop a technology that may one day power spaceships to other planets and even to distant stars.(Franklin Chang Diaz Wikipedia)

His next problem was when he got to America he needed a house to live in.As one of three mission specialists, the 35-year-old physicist shares responsibility for a number of experiments, among them a remotely controlled laboratory in the shuttle's cargo bay in which various substances are melted and solidified in the absence of gravity.But a part of his assignment Dr. Chang regards as especially important will be his orbital television broadcast of explanations and commentary in Spanish, aimed at Hispanic people around the world.(Franklin Chang Diaz Wikipedia)The physicist is only the second Hispanic astronaut on an American space mission. Dr. Rodolfo Neri Vela, a Mexican physicist, was a payload specialist aboard the shuttle Atlantis last November. A Cuban flew aboard the Soviet Soyuz space laboratory Throughout his career Dr. Chang has involved himself in Hispanic-American affairs. 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. He maintains ties with Costa Rica; in his shuttle flight he is to have a radio conversation with President Luis Alberto Monge. Eyes on the StarsDr.(Franklin Chang Diaz Adastrarocket)

His last problem was he had lots of pressure for being the first Hispanic - American.Chang, who lives in Houston with his wife, Peggy, has two daughters, Jean, 12, and Sonia, 7. In his spare time, Dr. Chang flies gliders, plays soccer, swims, hunts and hikes. But the main focus of his work has always been in the direction of the stars.His paternal grandfather, who was Chinese, moved to Costa Rica at the turn of the century.Franklin took an early interest in science and technology and by 1967, when he graduated from the Colegio de la Salle in San Jose, he was well on his way. After graduating from Hartford High School in 1969 and the University of Connecticut in 1973, he earned his doctorate in applied plasma physics at M.I.T. in 1977, the year he became an American citizen.Plasma is a high-temperature gas, in which electrons have been stripped away from their host atoms. The resulting electrically charged atoms, or ions, fuel the thermonuclear reactions of stars and may one day provide a source of energy on earth. Long-Range Space Flights Some of Dr. Chang's research was devoted to the development of thermonuclear (fusion) energy, but another aspect of his work has been the design of plasma rocket engines for very long-range space flights. (Dr.Franklin Chang Diaz)

These are all the three problems that Franklin Chang Diaz had in his life. Good thing he was smart and had people supporting him in many ways. They helped him get into school. They also helped him get a job at NASA as well. He had many friends. He loved his job so all those struggles he has been through was a good deal for what he is going through know in his life.

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