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= Resources =
 * Scholastic - Latinos in History
 * FactMonster.com - Search under People and Biographies
 * [|Wikipedia] - search for Latinos in science, Latinos in technology, Hispanics in science, Hispanics in technology

=People I am searching...= =Latino Essay...=
 * Ellen Ochoa
 * Severo Ochoa

How Hispanics Changed Science and Technology. One of the most important Hispanics that changed the history of science and technology is Ellen Ochoa. Ellen Ochoa was born on May 10th, 1958 and was born in Los Angeles California (Ellen Ochoa). Ellen's home town is La Mesa, California. She is known for being the first Hispanic woman to travel to the moon. Ellen was selected to be an astronaut in January 1990 and she became an astronaut in July of 1991. She served on a nine-day mission aboard the shuttle discovery in 1993(Ellen Ochoa). Ellen Ochoa has been in space for 40 days 19 hours and 36 minutes (Ellen Ochoa). Ellen is married to Coe Fulmer Miles, and they have two children. Ellen Ochoa retired in 2012, and she has been retired for 54 years. Ellen has been on mission STS-56, STS-66, STS-96, and STS-110. She was a mission specialist on STS-56 in 1993, was payload commander on STS-66, and was mission specialist and flight engineer on STS-96 and STS-110 in 2002 (Ellen Ochoa). Ochoa made history again by becoming the first Hispanic and second female director of NASA's Johnson Space Center. Ellen Ochoa got many awards, and two of them are NASA's Exceptional Service Medal, and The Outstanding Leadership Medal. Ellen got the NASA's Exceptional Service Medal in 1997 and The Outstanding Leadership Medal in 1995. Not only was Ellen Ochoa an astronaut, she was a researcher, an engineer, and a classical flutist. Ellen graduated Grossmont high school in La Mesa, California in 1975. Ellen got her Master of Science and doctorate degree at Stanford University and received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from San Diego State University in 1980. She currently serves as Director of Flight Crew Operations at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Ellen lives in Texas with her family. She was part of the Atlantis mission in November 1994, and in 1999 she was a member of the Discovery crew that executed the first docking to the International Space Station (ISS) (Discovery Crew). When Ellen got married to Coe Fulmer Miles she changed her last name to miles. Ellen’s new name is Ellen miles. Ellen Ochoa’s Idol is Sally Ride, the first woman to go to space. Ellen’s last mission (STS-110) was in 2002.

Another very important Hispanic that changed the history of science and technology is Franklin R. Chang-Diaz. Franklin was born on April 5th of 1950. Just like Ellen Ochoa Franklin is an astronaut. He is famous for being the first Hispanic to enter the space program. Franklin became an astronaut in 1981. Franklin has been in six different trips to outer space. He had three different jobs and they were: A physicist, engineer, and a retired astronaut. Franklin was selected to be an astronaut in 1980. He had performed three spacewalks with Philippe Perrin to work on construction on the International Space Station. Franklin was a director in the Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory in the same space center as Ellen Ochoa. Franklin set up the Ad Astra Rocket Company. This company had created a Variable Specific Impulse Magneto plasma Rocket. This rocket was an electrical propulsion device for use in space. After being an astronaut for 25 years, Franklin R. Chang-Diaz retired. There are a lot of Hispanics that have changed the daily lives of everybody in the world through science and technology. Ellen Ochoa and Franklin R. Chang-Diaz are the people I used in my essay because they stand out and they have done a very good job in changing other astronaut’s lives and they have become idols to everybody wanting to become an astronaut.

=Works Cited...= "Ellen Ochoa." Fact Monster.com © 2000–2013 Pearson Education, publishing as Fact Monster. 28 Apr. 2014 .

"Ellen Ochoa." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 21 Apr. 2014. Web. 01 May 2014. .