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33 years ago, Costa Rican Franklin Chang traveled to space for the first time

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33 years ago, January 14, Franklin Chang traveled to space for the first time

The former NASA astronaut is today, based in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, involved in developing a plasma rocket engine and a bringing to mass use a of the hydrogen powered bus.

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