List of Asian Americans

This page is a list of notable Asian Americans.

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This section is a list of astronauts of Asian ancestry who are, by birth or naturalization, American citizens.

No. Image Name
Birth date		 Country of ancestry Country of birth Comment Missions (Launch date)
1 Ellison Onizuka
June 24, 1946		  Japan  United States First Japanese American in space. Died on the Challenger. STS-51-C (January 24, 1985)
STS-51-L (January 28, 1986)
2 Taylor Gun-jin Wang
June 16, 1940		  China First Chinese American in space. STS-51-B (April 29, 1985)
3 Franklin Chang-Diaz
April 5, 1950		  China  Costa Rica STS-61-C (January 12, 1986)
STS-34 (October 18, 1989)
STS-46 (July 31, 1992)
STS-60 (February 3, 1994)
STS-75 (February 22, 1996)
STS-91 (June 2, 1998)
STS-111 (June 5, 2002)
4 Eugene Trinh
September 14, 1950		  Vietnam First Vietnamese American in space. STS-50 (June 25, 1992)
5 Leroy Chiao
August 28, 1960		  China  United States Served on ISS Expedition 10. STS-65 (July 8, 1994)
STS-72 (January 11, 1996)
STS-92 (October 11, 2000)
Soyuz TMA-5 (October 14, 2004)
6 Ed Lu
July 1, 1963		  China  United States Served on ISS Expedition 7. STS-84 (May 15, 1997)
STS-106 (September 8, 2000)
Soyuz TMA-2 (April 6, 2003)
7 Kalpana Chawla
March 17, 1962		  India First Indian American in space. Died on the Columbia. STS-87 (November 19, 1997)
STS-107 (January 16, 2003)
8 Mark L. Polansky
June 2, 1956		  Republic of Korea  United States First Korean American in space STS-98 (February 7, 2001)
STS-116 (December 9, 2006)
STS-127 (July 15, 2009)
9 Daniel M. Tani
February 1, 1961		  Japan  United States Served on ISS Expedition 16. STS-108 (December 5, 2001)
STS-120 (October 23, 2007)
STS-122 (February 7, 2008)
10 Sunita Pandya Williams
September 19, 1965		  India  United States Served on ISS Expedition 14/15 and Expedition 32/33. Second female commander of ISS. STS-116/117 (December 9, 2006)
11 Kjell N. Lindgren
January 23, 1973		  China
 United States		  Republic of China Selected in 2009 to NASA Astronaut Group 20. He is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station as part of Expedition 44 in June 2015 with Soyuz TMA-17M.

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