Flight record
4 flights on padside's record, flying from 1993 to 2002.
4Flights
40d 19hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
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.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Mexico City
- Education
- Stanford University; San Diego State University; Grossmont High School
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom; California Hall of Fame; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; NASA Distinguished Service Medal; NASA Space Flight Medal; and 4 more
From Wikidata.
Flights
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-110April 8, 2002
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-96May 27, 1999
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-66November 3, 1994
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-56April 8, 1993
Born 1958-05-10 · age 68