Taylor Wang

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Taylor Gun-Jin Wang is a Chinese-born Taiwanese-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.

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Taylor Gun-Jin Wang; Taylor Wang
university teacher, physicist, astronaut, 


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