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Taylor Gun-Jin Wang (zh-tsp
|t=王贛駿
|s=王赣骏 |p=Wáng Gànjùn)
(born June 16, 1940) is the first ethnic Chinese
astronaut to go into space.  The Chinese American
was a payload specialist on the space shuttle
Challenger, during mission STS-51-B, on April 29,
1985. 

With ancestry in Yancheng, Jiangsu, China, Wang
was born in Shanghai to Wang Zhang
(王章) and Yu Jiehong
(俞潔虹). He moved to Taiwan in
1952 with his family. He studied his later part of
elementary school in Kaohsiung, and middle school
in Taipei. He later moved to Hong Kong. He started
studying physics in UCLA in 1963, and received his
M.S. in 1968, and his doctoral in fluid mechanics
in 1968 and solid state physics in 1971. 

After graduation, Wang worked until 1988 in the
California Institute of Technology's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory. He gained US citizenship in
1975, and published a paper on dynamic behavior of
rotating spheroids in weightlessness|zero gravity
the next year. The paper received attention in
NASA, and Wang had then been undergoing training
as an astronaut-scientist since June 1, 1983 in
Spacelab|Spacelab-3. On April 29, 1985, he went on
Challenger with six others for seven days, 8
minutes, and 46 seconds. During the flight, Wang
observed the behavior of the spheroids in the Drop
Dynamics Module. 

Wang later became a professor at Vanderbilt
University, Tennessee. He has written about 180
articles on drop and bubble dynamics, collision
and coalescence of drops, charged drop dynamics,
containerless science, and encapsulation of living
cells. His experiments were carried out in summer
of 1992 in United States Microgravity Laboratory 1
(USML-1), and in fall of 1995 aboard USML-2.

Wang is married to Xueping Feng
(馮雪平) with two sons, Kenneth
Wang and Eric Wang.

== External links ==
*
http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/w
ang_taylor.htm A profile & portrait
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http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/wang-t.html
NASA biography
*
http://frontweb.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/vuse_web/direc
tory/facultybio.asp?FacultyID=36 Wang's biography
at Vanderbilt