Ochoa recently chatted with Know Your Value about NASA’s historic all-female spacewalk, what’s holding women back from going into STEM and what she’s focusing on during her retirement.
Those are the words Ochoa uses to describe other landmark events in NASA history, like the selection of the, which included the first women, African-American, and Asian-American astronauts, and Sally Ride’s 1983 flight, making her the first American woman in space. She credits both those developments with sparking her interest in NASA.
Sally Ride, America's first female astronaut, communicates with ground controllers from the flight deck during her six-day space mission aboard the Challenger in June 1983. Ride died following a battle with cancer at the age of 61 in July 2012.“Having a couple other things in common with Sally, besides the fact that we were just women, I think it was really important for me,” Ochoa said.
Commander Kent Rominger; Mission Specialists Valery Tokarev, Julie Payette, Ellen Ochoa, Tamara Jernigan; Pilot Rick Husband; and Mission Specialist Daniel Barry, the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery, at the launchpad in 1999.of all workers in science and engineering occupations, according to the National Science Foundation. Part of what’s holding women back, she said, is a lack of information about those fields.
Ochoa only began to work alongside other women when she came to NASA. Before that, she was the only woman out of some 60 researchers when she worked at a Department of Energy lab. The number of women in her graduate program in the electrical engineering department at Stanford was hardly better. But at NASA, she was immediately struck that around a quarter of the people in her department were women.“That caught my eye right at the beginning,” Ochoa said.
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