Ellen Ochoa was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House last week, becoming the tenth astronaut to receive the country's highest civilian honor.Tom Williams via Getty Images Ellen Ochoa, the
Through her impressive research work, NASA selected Ochoa to become an astronaut in 1991. Two years later, Ochoa made history on board the space shuttle Discovery on a mission to study the Earth’s ozone layer. She later completed three more missions. ...
liftoff! NASA astronaut Dr. Ellen Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman to travel to outer space in 1993, but her list of accomplishments doesn’t end there. She began her career with a bachelor’s degree in Physics and went on to complete master’s and doctorate degrees in Electrical ...
The NASA astronaut is of Mexican descent, and she's an advocate for women in STEM. “I think we need all the best and brightest people working in science and engineering fields, and that is certainly not limited to men or white men or anything like that,” she said to NBC News. ...
She more recently appeared in Dean Fleischer-Camp’s hit animated film Marcel the Shell with Shoes On for A24, and will next be seen starring alongside Michael Peña in Prime Video’s A Million Miles Away, an astronaut drama inspired by the true story of Jose Hernandez, who defied insurmou...
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below History & Culture How the Gallaudet Four Paved the Way for the ADA Tiffany Trump President Donald Trump’s Family Tree Coco Chanel’s Secret Life as a Nazi Agent Superfine: The Met Celebrates Black Dandyism ...
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below History & Culture How the Gallaudet Four Paved the Way for the ADA Tiffany Trump President Donald Trump’s Family Tree Coco Chanel’s Secret Life as a Nazi Agent Superfine: The Met Celebrates Black Dandyism ...