Franklin Chang Elected to Cummins Board
Costa Rica’s beloved astronaut, scientist, businessman and inventor, Franklin Chang Diaz, has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of Cummins, Inc., a U.S. company that designs, manufactures, distributes and services engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission solutions and electrical power generation systems (click for link to press release). Chang will serve on the Board’s Safety, Environment and Technology Committee, as well as the Audit, Finance and Governance and Nominating Committees. Chang, 59 years old, graduated from MIT with a doctorate in nuclear engineering and has flown seven missions with the space shuttle. He founded Ad Astra Rocket Company, which is developing the VASIMAR rocket engine that could cut space travel time for Mars missions in half. Chang resides part-time in Houston, Texas and partly in Liberia, Costa Rica. He and his wife, Peggy, have four daughters, ages 14 to 36. In addition to his participation in the NASA space program for 25 years (he retired in 2005), Chang has been instrumental in improving education opportunities for the youth of Costa Rica.
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