Taylor Wang
Taylor Gun-Jin Wang is a Chinese-born American physicist, engineer, and former shuttle . He flew on STS-51-B in 1985 and became the first person of Chinese ethnicity to travel in space.
- Born
- June 16, 1940
- Died
- N/A
- Birthplace
- Ganxian District, Jiangxi,China
Flights
1
Spacewalks
0
EVA time
N/A
In space
7 days, 0 hours, 8 minutes
Bio
Wang worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and specialized in fluid physics, containerless processing, and materials behavior. His payload-specialist role centered on scientific equipment he knew deeply from laboratory development.
His only spaceflight was STS-51-B, the Spacelab 3 mission aboard Challenger. Wang operated experiments involving fluid dynamics and materials processing in microgravity.
The mission placed Wang among the early group of shuttle payload specialists selected for expertise tied to specific scientific investigations rather than as permanent career astronauts.
After the flight, Wang continued scientific and engineering work. His career is significant in Chinese American spaceflight history and in microgravity fluid-science research.