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NASA Astronaut Dr. Ellen Ochoa
Dr. Ellen Ochoa, a veteran astronaut, was the 11th director of the Johnson Space Center. She was JSC’s first Hispanic director, and its second female director. Her previous management roles include Deputy Center Director and Director of Flight Crew Operations.
Ochoa joined NASA in 1988 as a research engineer at Ames Research Center and moved to Johnson Space Center in 1990 when she was selected as an astronaut. She became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on the nine-day STS-56 mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1993. She has flown in space four times, including STS-66, STS-96 and STS-110, logging nearly 1,000 hours in orbit.
Born in California, Ochoa earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from San Diego State University and a master’s degree and doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University. As a research engineer at Sandia National Laboratories and NASA Ames Research Center, Ochoa investigated optical systems for performing information processing. She is a co-inventor on three patents and author of several technical papers.
Ochoa has been recognized with NASA’s highest award, the Distinguished Service Medal, and the Presidential Distinguished Rank Award f
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Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Ochoa’s career offers an outstanding example of how invention can lead to adventure. She established herself as an innovative engineer and went on to become the world’s first Hispanic female astronaut.
Ochoa was born May 10, 1958 in Los Angeles, but she grew up in La Mesa, California. Throughout her youth, she devoted herself to music as well as math and science. When she graduated from San Diego State University in 1980 with a BS in Physics, Ochoa was considering a career either as a classical flutist or in business. But instead, mindful of her mother’s insistence on the importance of education, Ochoa chose to enter graduate school at Stanford University.
When Neil Armstrong had first walked on the moon (July 1969), Ochoa was 11 years old. It never would have occurred to her then that she too might someday become an astronaut. However, in 1983, when Ochoa was midway between earning her MS (1981) and PhD (1985) in Electrical Engineering, Sally Ride became the first female U.S. astronaut. This gave Ochoa the encouragement to aim high. Upon gaining her doctorate, she applied to NASA to become an astronaut herself.
At Stanford, Ochoa specialized in designing optical systems that analyze and draw con