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Ellen Ochoa: The First Latina Astronaut to Go into Space

In 1993, Ellen Ochoa became the first Latino person in space. She logged nearly 1,000 hours in orbit across four space missions, studying the Earth’s ozone layer. She would later become the NASA Johnson Space Center’s first Latina director and only its second female director. “At the time, it was really a personal thing,” Ochoa …
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