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First person from Latin America to fly in space. First person of African descent in space. First Cuban in space. Soyuz 38 (September 18, 1980) 2 Rodolfo Neri Vela February 19, 1952 Mexico: First Mexican in space. STS-61-B (November 26, 1985) 3 Franklin Chang-Diaz April 5, 1950 United States ( Costa Rica) First Costa Rican astronaut
Ellen Ochoa (born May 10, 1958) is an American engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. [1] In 1993, Ochoa became the first Latina woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. [2]
He is a veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions, tying the record, as of 2021 for the most spaceflights (a record set two months earlier by Jerry L. Ross). He was the third Latin American, and the first Latin American immigrant NASA astronaut selected to go into space. [5] Chang-Díaz is a member of NASA's Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Sonia Sotomayor is the first Hispanic-American to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. 23. In 1986, Franklin Chang-Díaz was the first Hispanic astronaut aboard Space Shuttle Columbia.
Ochoa was the first Latina astronaut to go to space. She served on the nine-day mission aboard the Discovery and went on to become the first Latinx director of the Johnson Space Center. 15.
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born 29 January 1942) is a Cuban military officer, legislator, and former cosmonaut and the first person of African heritage in space. [1] [2] In 1980, as a member of the crew of Soyuz 38, he became the first Cuban citizen, the first Latin American, the first person of African descent, and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United ...
He is the first astronaut from Sicily Samantha Cristoforetti, 541st person in space, who has performed the longest single spaceflight by a woman, as of 2015 Andreas Mogensen, joint 544th person and the first Dane in space Aidyn Aimbetov, joint 544th person and the first solely Kazakh cosmonaut Hazza Al Mansouri, joint 564th person and the first ...
Students at the 1st school named for her in the U.S. had a surprise for the former director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center.