COSTA RICAN TIMES
Costa Rica News – Costa Rica’s Franklin Chang Diaz is known for his seven trips out of Earth and his portrait hanging in the NASA Hall of Fame but his dream didn’t end there.
He now awaits his plasma engine’s trip to Mars.
In a laboratory in Houston and another in Liberia, Chang’s team is working on the plasma engine that will be used for future space explorations, including a manned trip to Mars. His company’s schedule indicates that the plasma engine would be launched into space later this year.
Chang, age 67, is recognized as the first Central American astronaut to fly into space. He also is one of the people with the most time spent in space, 66 days 18 hours and 16 minutes.
His mother worries every
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