Taylor Gun-Jin Wang
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1940-06-16
Status Retired
Type Government
Astronaut Biography
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.
