Tue, Sep 18, 2007
Flew On Four Shuttle Missions
Veteran astronaut Ellen Ochoa has been named the next deputy
director of NASA's Johnson Space Center. Ochoa (below) is a
four-time space flier who has served as director of flight crew
operations at Johnson. She will succeed Bob Cabana, who was named
director of NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
"Ellen has proven her exceptional capabilities many times in
space as well as in her many roles on the ground, including most
recently her superb management of flight crew operations," said
Johnson Director Mike Coats. "We are extremely fortunate to bring
her outstanding reputation throughout the agency and her wealth of
experience to this new task."
Ochoa will assume duties as deputy director after the next space
shuttle mission, STS-120.
Ochoa considers La Mesa, CA her hometown. She earned a
bachelor's degree in physics from San Diego State University and a
master's degree and doctorate in electrical engineering from
Stanford University. She managed the Intelligent Systems Technology
Branch at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA before
being selected as an astronaut in 1990.
She flew on space shuttle missions STS-56 in 1993, STS-66 in
1994, STS-96 in 1999, and STS-110 in 2002, logging a total of 978
hours in space.
Ochoa became deputy director of flight crew operations at
Johnson in December 2002 and director of flight crew operations in
September 2006.
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