For Hispanic Heritage Month, I am writing about Ellen Ochoa. Ellen Ochoa is a Latina woman who was born May 10 1958 in Los Angeles. She had received a bachelor of science degree in physics from San Diego State University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1980. Ochoa had two sons and she became an engineer. This is when Ochoa decide she wanted to go to space. She was selected by NASA in 1990 and in 1991 became the world's first Hispanic female astronaut.
On April 8, 1993, Ellen Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman in the world to go into space. Ochoa was on the Discovery shuttle for nine days. Ochoa had been researching information about Earth’s ozone layer. She had been a veteran of four space flights, logging more than 950 hours in space. Some of her assignments were flight software and computer hardware development and robotics development, testing, and training. Ochoa had conquered a lot she had served as the Chief of the Astronaut Office and lead spacecraft communicator in Mission Control. Ellen Ochoa is currently the director of Flight Crew Operations at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. In conclusion, Ellen Ochoa makes me strive to be a better me. She shows women that we have the same knowledge as men and even more. She proves if you work hard and are dedicated you could do anything. I am happy that I got to learn her story and understand that it wasn’t an easy job to go to space. This shows how brave and confident she was in herself. She inspires me to have the same confidence and braveness she had doing this job.
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