# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franklin-chang-diaz
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:22:18.517Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franklin-chang-diaz"
name: "Franklin Chang-Díaz"
slug: "franklin-chang-diaz"
description: "Franklin Ramon Chang-Díaz is a Costa Rican-American mechanical engineer, physicist, and former NASA astronaut. He is the sole founder and CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company as well as a member of the Cummins' board of directors. He became a U. S. citizen in 1977."
tagline: "Costa Rican-American astronaut and physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Changdiaz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1950-04-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump