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The following is a list of persons from Spanish-speaking countries or of Hispanic descent who have travelled into space, sorted by date of first flight. The first country listed is that of citizenship; the second, if any, is that of the Spanish-speaking country of birth or ancestry.
On November 9, of that same year, Soto Toro along with another Puerto Rican Astronaut applicant, Henry Bursian Berríos and Ninfa Segarra, who was the first Hispanic Deputy Mayor of New York City, were named the Grand Marshalls of the Puerto Rican Day Parade held in Palm Bay, Florida. [56]
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
Countries (and successor states) whose citizens have flown in space as of January 2024. The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) defines spaceflight as any flight over 100 kilometres (62 mi), while in the United States, professional, military and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of 50 miles (80 ...
She helped launch Latino USA in 1992 and has also worked for CNN, as well as written two books. ... Ochoa was the first Latina astronaut to go to space. She served on the nine-day mission aboard ...
In 1993, the first Hispanic-American woman astronaut was Ellen Ochoa. The Los Angeles, California native went to space on a 9-day mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery. She went on to become ...
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.
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.