photo Ellen Ochoa
First name and last name Ellen Ochoa
Date of birth 10.05.1958
Nationality USA
Space Agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Status Retired
Type of astronaut Government agency
X https://twitter.com/Astro_Ellen
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Ochoa

Missions:

  • STS-56
  • STS-66
  • STS-96
  • STS-110

Additional information Ellen Ochoa

Ellen Ochoa is an American engineer, former astronaut and the current Director of the Johnson Space Center. Ochoa became director of the center upon the retirement of the previous director, Michael Coats, on December 31, 2012. In 1993 Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman in the world to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the shuttle Discovery.