By — John Yang John Yang By — Lorna Baldwin Lorna Baldwin Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-story-of-ellen-ochoa-the-first-hispanic-woman-in-space Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Audio This Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting stories of women whose accomplishments have often not received widespread attention. Today, we learn about NASA astronaut Ellen Ochoa, who became the first Hispanic woman to go to space in 1993. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. John Yang: March is Women's History Month. So over the next few weeks, we're highlighting stories of women whose accomplishments have often not gotten widespread recognition. Man: Hello, Ellen. Ellen Ochoa, NASA Astronaut: Hello there. I'm up here taking pictures to support the experiment. John Yang: Ellen Ochoa was the first Hispanic woman in space. She logged nearly 1,000 hours in space over the course of four missions between 1999 and 2002. Man: Astronaut Ellen Ochoa is maneuvering the robotic arm into a position where it will be for the start of the spacewalk. John Yang: And engineer she directed her fellow astronauts on spacewalks from the International Space Station.Ochoa went on to become the first Hispanic person to be head of the Johnson Space Center. Ellen Ochoa: This is a really exciting and important mission for us. We will in the future be putting our astronauts on board and we're testing some of the highest risks. John Yang: Today she's an advocate for STEM education and has written a bilingual children's book, We Are All Scientists. Listen to this Segment Watch Watch the Full Episode PBS NewsHour from Mar 05, 2023 By — John Yang John Yang John Yang is the anchor of PBS News Weekend and a correspondent for the PBS NewsHour. He covered the first year of the Trump administration and is currently reporting on major national issues from Washington, DC, and across the country. @johnyangtv By — Lorna Baldwin Lorna Baldwin Lorna Baldwin is an Emmy and Peabody award winning producer at the PBS NewsHour. In her two decades at the NewsHour, Baldwin has crisscrossed the US reporting on issues ranging from the water crisis in Flint, Michigan to tsunami preparedness in the Pacific Northwest to the politics of poverty on the campaign trail in North Carolina. Farther afield, Baldwin reported on the problem of sea turtle nest poaching in Costa Rica, the distinctive architecture of Rotterdam, the Netherlands and world renowned landscape artist, Piet Oudolf. @lornabaldwin