birth_place mission nationality article_title birth_date insignia image time name type occupation
jiangxi , china sts-51-b american taylor wang
 16 june 1940 40px taylor wang - full.jpg 7d 00h 08m taylor text-align : left ; font-weight : normal ; title = gun-jin 签名 ： liststyle = border-top :1 px solid #aaa ; wang 180px titlestyle = background : transparent ; jpl payload specialist scientist
taylor wang

taylor gun-jin wang -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- born june 16 , 1940 -rrb- is an american scientist and in 1985 , became the first ethnic chinese person 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 .
