Growing up in Costa Rica, Franklin Chang Díaz and his friends would put chairs sideways inside a big cardboard box in his backyard and pretend it was a rocket ship. Sitting with their backs to ...

Join Mark Sirangelo as he welcomes Dr. Franklin Chang Diaz, a veteran of seven space missions and now Chairman and CEO of the Ad Astra Rocket Company, for a very special discussion of his remarkable ...

All while a young Franklin Chang-Diaz pretended he was an astronaut. “The American astronauts became our heroes, certainly my heroes,” Chang-Diaz said. Out of high school, Chang-Diaz worked ...

On July 20, 2009, Franklin Chang-Díaz answered viewer questions about plasma rockets, eating tortillas in space, and much more. Please note we are no longer accepting questions, but see Rocket ...

A private video conference with NASA Astronaut Hall of Famer and CEO of the Ad Astra Rocket Company,Dr. Franklin Chang Diaz. The conference was part of the Ad Astra Rocket company’s social ...

In a cavernous warehouse behind a strip mall about three miles from the Johnson Space Center, just south of Houston, a Costa Rica–born scientist and former NASA astronaut named Franklin Chang ...

Franklin Chang Díaz went to space seven times. Now, he’s building a radical new engine. The man who wants to change the future of space travel drives a 1983 Volkswagen Jetta. Rusted and worn ...

Best of CES 2023: These innovations will reshape the future ...

Ad Astra Rocket Company Homepage www.adastrarocket.com/home1.html Learn about the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) system that might help us ...

Franklin Chang-Díaz remembers the day his mother told him that a new star soared in the sky. The year was 1957, and the Soviets had just launched a basketball-size satellite named Sputnik, which ...

Starting a company to develop plasma-driven rocket engines is a pretty good postretirement career. But when your first career fulfilled a childhood dream of being an astronaut, wouldn’t anything ...