Ellen Ochoa
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Ellen Ochoa is an American engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. In 1993, Ochoa became the first Latina to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboar
Ochoa in 2002
Ochoa aboard Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-56 in 1993
Ochoa in 2014
STS-56
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STS-56 was a NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission to perform special experiments. It was Discovery's 16th flight. The mission was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on April 8, 1993.
Ellen Ochoa
…was to study the Earth's ozone layer. A veteran of four space flights, Ochoa has logged nearly 1000 hours in space. She was a mission specialist on STS-56 (1993), was payload commander on STS-66, and was mission specialist and flight engineer on STS-96 and STS-110 in 2002. Her third trip was for the STS-96…
Components of the ATLAS-2 laboratory in the payload bay of Discovery
Standing: Cockrell, Foale, Ochoa Seated: Oswald, CameronSpace Shuttle program← STS-54 (53)STS-55 (55) →
Launch of STS-56
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