Taylor Gun-Jin Wang
American - (NASA)
Retired
Date of Birth: June 16, 1940
Age: 84
Taylor Gun-Jin Wang 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.
Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-51-B
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 29, 1985, 4:02 p.m.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 8-9
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
H3-22
Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 (ALOS-4)
Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2 - Tanegashima Space Center, JapanThe Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 (ALOS-4) is a Japanese satellite designed to observe the Earth's surface using a phased array type L-band syn…
Long March 7A
ChinaSat 3A
201 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of ChinaChinese communication geostationary satellite for unknown purposes.
Falcon 9
NROL-186
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USASecond batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office t…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 10-3
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
