Dr. Ellen Ochoa is the first Hispanic woman in space, a veteran of four space shuttle mission and currently Director of Johnson Space Center, the first Hispanic woman and second woman to be director.
She made history on her first space shuttle mission (STS-56) on Discovery in April 1993, when she was a mission specialist. Her second flight was on Atlantis (STS-66) in November 1994. Her third trip into space was on Discovery again (STS-96) in May-June 1999. Her final voyage (STS-110) was on Atlantis in April 2002.
She is in the 2017 class to be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. And she's a classical flautist!
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