艾伦·奥乔亚穿上宇航服

Astronaut Ellen Ochoa, STS-110 flight engineer, wears a launch and entry suit as part of water survival training in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at the Sonny Carter Training Facility near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas in 2001. STS-110 was the 13th shuttle mission to visit the International Space Station (ISS). The mission included 4 spacewalks, furthering the construction of the ISS.

Dr. Ochoa was selected by NASA in 1990 as the first female Hispanic astronaut and became the first Hispanic astronaut to fly to the International Space Station. Ochoa was named as the deputy director of the agency’s Johnson Space Center’s in 2007, then as the Center’s first Hispanic director and its second female director in 2013. She served in that position until her retirement from NASA in 2018.

Throughout National Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re celebrating the contributions of the brilliant Hispanic people of NASA.

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2001年，宇航员埃伦·奥乔亚，STS-110飞行工程师，在德克萨斯州休斯顿NASA约翰逊航天中心附近的桑尼·卡特训练设施的中性浮力实验室，穿着一套发射和进入服，参加水中生存训练。STS-110是第13次访问国际空间站的航天飞机任务。该任务包括4次太空行走，进一步推进国际空间站的建设。

奥乔亚博士于1990年被NASA选为第一位女性拉美裔宇航员，并成为第一位飞往国际空间站的拉美裔宇航员。奥乔亚在2007年被任命为该机构约翰逊航天中心的副主任，然后在2013年成为该中心的第一位拉美裔主任和第二位女性主任。她一直担任该职位，直到2018年从NASA退休。

在整个国家拉美裔传统月，我们庆祝NASA杰出的拉美裔人的贡献。

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