Wang, Taylor G., 1940-

Taylor Gun-Jin Wang; born June 16, 1940; Taiwanese American scientist; in 1985, became the first ethnic Chinese person 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.

Taylor G. Wang; Born June 16, 1940, Mainland China; physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, and is a U.S. citizen; BS (1967), MS (1968), PhD (1971) in physics, University of California at Los Angeles; joined the California Institute of Technology Jet propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in 1972 as a senior scientist; has 20 patents; flew on STS-51B Challenger (1985); traveled over 2.9 million miles in 110 Earth orbits, and had logged over 168 hours in space.