Taylor Wang

Taylor Gun-Jin Wang is a Chinese-born 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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Yang Liwei became China's first citizen in space when he launched in 2003. However, William Anders of Apollo 8 was born in Hong Kong, while American astronauts Shannon Lucid and Taylor Wang were both born in Shanghai