# Ellen Ochoa (@ellen-ochoa)

Ellen Ochoa is an engineer and former astronaut who became the first Hispanic woman to travel in space.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Ellen Ochoa's public record._

## Topics

- [NASA leadership](/@ellen-ochoa/nasa-leadership.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Optical engineering](/@ellen-ochoa/optics.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Spaceflight](/@ellen-ochoa/spaceflight.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nasa.gov/people/ellen-ochoa/
- blog: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/ellen-ochoa-nasas-first-hispanic-female-astronaut/
- blog: https://www.invent.org/inductees/ellen-ochoa

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "ellen-ochoa", "question": "…"}`.