For Women’s History Month KSAT 12 is sharing the story of Ellen Ochoa, the first Latina astronaut to go to space.
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“It was something I’d been dreaming about for a while. So, it was definitely exciting for the day to come,” Ochoa said. “Our primary objective on that flight was studying the earth’s atmosphere and particularly the problem of the ozone hole and the ozone depletion,” Ochoa said.“One of the things we were doing was shooting a video, part of a liftoff to learning series that NASA had at that time and this was geared at kindergarteners through second graders, kind of comparing a day in space with, a day they might be familiar with, on earth.
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