El diez de mayo/May 10th
Photo/Image from scholastic.com. Click HERE . ¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Ellen Ochoa! (1958) An engineer and veteran astronaut who is currently the director of The Johnson Space Center, Ochoa is the first Hispanic women to have gone to space (with the space shuttle Discovery in 1993) and the first Hispanic director of The Johnson Space Center. Ochoa's paternal grandparents were immigrants from Mexico who came to the United States to provide their family with more opportunities. Of them, Ochoa has said that she could only imagine the astonishment and pride they would feel upon knowing that their granddaughter had travelled to space, as they had been born in Mexico in the 1870s and had come to this country to lift up their family ("Sólo puedo imaginar el asombro y el orgullo de mis abuelos, quienes nacieron en México en la década de 1870, hubieran sentido al saber que su nieta creció para viajar al espacio. Vinieron a Estados Unidos para levantar a su familia. Junto a la pas...