Ellen Ochoa: Inspiring Astronaut

I picked Ellen Ochoa to write about because I really admire astronauts and the effort they put into their jobs. It's impressive all the things she has done and I aspire to be like her one day 

           -Brianna Quintero



Ellen Ochoa is a veteran astronaut who was JSC's first Hispanic director and its second female director. Her other management roles were Deputy Center Director and Director of Flight Crew Operations. She joined NASA in 1988 in Ames Research Center as a research engineer, but she moved to Johnson Space Center in 1990 because she was selected as an astronaut. When she served on the nine-day STS-56 mission on the Discovery shuttle, she became the first Hispanic woman to go to space. Including her STS-56 mission, Ellen Ochoa has flown in space four times, logging over 1,000 hours in orbit on missions.   

         Ochoa’s higher education includes earning a bachelor's degree in physics from San Diego State University and a master's degree and in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She has earned many awards, one of them being Nasa’s highest award, the Distinguished Service Medal and the Presidential Distinguished Rank Award. She has six schools named after her, is a co-inventor on three patents and an author of several technical papers. She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). She also serves on several boards. and chairs the Nomination Evaluation Committee for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

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