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Ellen Ochoa

1958 - Today

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Ellen Ochoa (born May 10, 1958) is an American engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. In 1993, Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Ochoa became director of the center upon the retirement of the previous director, Michael Coats, on December 31, 2012. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ellen Ochoa has received more than 1,152,749 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Ellen Ochoa is the 303rd most popular astronaut (down from 299th in 2019), the 11,408th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,363rd in 2019) and the 134th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 39.20

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  • 30

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  • 1.87

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  • 4.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Ellen Ochoa ranks 303 out of 524. Before her are Pamela Melroy, Byron K. Lichtenberg, Naoko Yamazaki, Reinhold Ewald, Frederick Hauck, and Jan Davis. After her are Gerhard Thiele, Richard O. Covey, Linda M. Godwin, Steven Hawley, Franz Viehböck, and John M. Lounge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Ellen Ochoa ranks 476. Before her are Jānis Ķipurs, Joan Severance, Faiza Jama Mohamed, Xavier Becerra, Mick Harvey, and Pedro Uralde. After her are Neville Southall, Maria das Neves, Jim Leighton, Thomas Dolby, Arsinée Khanjian, and Margot Käßmann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ellen Ochoa ranks 11,408 out of 18,182. Before her are Lynn Whitfield (1953), Ted Demme (1963), Harry B. Gray (1935), Twiggy Ramirez (1971), Eric Balfour (1977), and Greg Valentine (1951). After her are Ashley Johnson (1983), Lou Adler (1933), Walt Faulkner (1918), William H. Gass (1924), Kiersten Warren (1965), and Big Boss Man (1963).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Ellen Ochoa ranks 134. Before her are Tamara E. Jernigan (1959), Jeffrey A. Hoffman (1944), Pamela Melroy (1961), Byron K. Lichtenberg (1948), Frederick Hauck (1941), and Jan Davis (1953). After her are Richard O. Covey (1946), Linda M. Godwin (1952), Steven Hawley (1951), John M. Lounge (1946), Tracy Caldwell Dyson (1969), and Thomas Akers (1951).

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