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Ellen Ochoa speaking at JSC

Spaceport Partnership Signing Ceremony

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Ellen Ochoa – Mission Control

Ellen Speaking at Mission Control

NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden visiting JSC accompanied by JSC Center Director, Ellen Ochoa

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Ellen – Spacehab Storage

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Looking at the future! Students @ochoaprep new STEM school in Pico Rivera, CA

Ánimo Ellen Ochoa Charter Middle School – The school is named after astronaut Ellen Ochoa | Photo courtesy Green Dot

Space veteran Ellen Ochoa pays return visit to namesake school

Ellen Ochoa – The Alumni Society Leadership Summit

Ellen S. Ochoa, STS-110 mission specialist.

Six NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut take a break from training to pose for the STS-96 crew portrait.

STS-96 Liftoff

Astronaut Ellen Ochoa spent many hours in this post aboard SpaceHab in Discovery’s cargo bay as she coordinated the large supply of hardware intended for the International Space Station (ISS).

Astronaut Ellen Ochoa in the SpaceHab module aboard the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Discovery.

Astronaut Ellen Ochoa, mission specialist, carries her son Wilson Miles-Ochoa following the STS-96 crew return at Ellington Field.

Ellen Ochoa, STS-110 mission specialist.

STS-110 crew wave as they stride out of the Operations and Checkout Building.

Astronaut Ellen Ochoa, STS-110 mission specialist, looks through the Earth observation window in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS).

Astronaut Ellen Ochoa, STS-110 mission specialist, poses by the speed limit signs in the Unity node on the International Space Station (ISS).

Lunar Rover tour for Center Director in the Mars Yard.

Working the controls of the Canadarm2 in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS).

The STS-110 and Expedition Four crews pose for a group photo in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS).

On the Space Shuttle Atlantis’ flight deck, the six crew members pose for the traditional inflight crew portrait.

Astronaut Ellen Ochoa, STS-56 mission specialist, takes a brief time out from a busy day in space to play a 15-minute set of flute offerings on the space shuttle Discovery’s aft flight deck.

Ellen and Robonaut 2 (R2) during media day in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility

NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden visiting JSC accompanied by JSC Center Director, Ellen Ochoa.

2014 RNASA Space Awards Gala in Houston, Texas. Bolden and Ochoa are both NASA astronauts.

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On the space shuttle Atlantis’ aft flight deck, astronaut Ellen Ochoa

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Ellen Speaking at JSC

Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, sister-in-law of Astronaut Scott Kelly, visits Mission Control

Texas Senator John Cornyn to JSC, escorted by JSC Center Director, Dr. Ellen Ochoa and Deputy Center Director Kirk Shireman.

NASA speakers at SpaceCom, Space Commerce Conference & Exposition at the George R. Brown Conference Center.

NASA speakers at SpaceCom, Space Commerce Conference & Exposition at the George R. Brown Conference Center.

Mark Kirasich, NASA’s Orion program manager, Blaine Brown, Lockheed Martin’s Orion crew module engineering deputy and Ellen Ochoa, JSC Center Director present a flown flag, piece of the EFT-1 back shell and a parachute to Space Center Houston.

Former President George H.W. Bush meeting Ellen Ochoa at a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

STS-56 Crew

Ellen Ochoa – Speaking at the Houston Super Bowl in 2017

Ellen Ochoa at her Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

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