Chino Roque

Daniel Angelo Roque (born 1990/1991), also known as Chino Roque, was one of the 23 space cadets selected from more than 28,000 Filipino candidates by the Axe Apollo Space Academy in 2013 to fly to space with XCOR Lynx. Being the only Filipino who qualified in the international astronaut selection, he would be considered as the first Filipino astronaut when the sub-orbital spaceflight takes place.

Early life and career Chino Roque was born in . He finished elementary and secondary education at De La Salle Santiago Zobel School and obtained a bachelor's degree in psychology at De La Salle University in 2013. He captained the men's futbol team from 2010 to 2012. After graduation, he gained experience as a student pilot and obtained a commercial pilot's license at the Omni Aviation Corporation in Clark Freeport and Special Economic Zone, Pampanga. He owns Central Ground CrossFit in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, where he also works as a CrossFit trainer.

While the proposed sub-orbital spaceflight was scheduled to be completed sometime between 2014 and 2015, no flight has been conducted with the proposed XCOR Lynx to date. This has been connected with the declared bankruptcy of XCOR Aerospace in 2017, the company sponsoring the vehicle to be used by the Axe Apollo Space Academy.