Sonia Chang-Diaz, daughter of former NASA astronaut and scientist Franklin Chang-Diaz, is racing for a seat at the Massachusetts Senate. Chang-Diaz, 30, was nominated by the Democrat Party after defeating Dianne Wilkinson. According to La Nacion she has said, “Since she was 15, she said one day she would be the President of the United States,” her uncle Ronald remembered. Like her renowned father, Sonia was born in Costa Rica.