In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the Runnels County Register will be posting articles on influential and heroic Hispanics through October. Dr. Ellen Ochoa is an engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston. She was born in Los Angeles, CA on May 10, 1958, and has, by any measure, led a full life. Her parents are Joseph and Rosanne Ochoa. Her maternal grandparents immigrated from Sonora, Mexico to Arizona and later to California. Dr. Ochoa was the first Hispanic director of the Johnson Space Center and its second female director...
