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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]
Franklin Ramon Chang-Díaz (born April 5, 1950, San José, Costa Rica) [1] is an American mechanical engineer, physicist, and former NASA astronaut. He is the sole founder and CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company [2] as well as a member of the Cummins' board of directors. [3] He became an American citizen in 1977. [4]
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.
José Moreno Hernández (born August 7, 1962) is a Mexican-American engineer [3] and astronaut. He currently serves as a Regent of the University of California.. Hernández was on the Space Shuttle mission STS-128 in August 2009.
[7] [8] In 1988, Ellen Ochoa joined NASA and became the first Hispanic woman astronaut. [12] Ochoa took on multiple missions that included Space shuttles Discovery, Atlantis, four flights, and almost 1,000 hours in space. In 1985, Shannon Lucid took on her first flight and by the end of her career she had spent 188 days in space. [7]
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.