From Optics to Spacewalks: Dr. Ellen Ochoa | Great Minds

Dr. Ellen Ochoa is incredible! She published over a dozen papers, co-filed three patents, and was a NASA engineer, all before becoming an astronaut and spending nearly a thousand hours in space. Hosted By: Hank Green ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: Jason A Saslow and David Brooks! Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SciShowSpace Or by checking out our awesome space pins and other products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow SciShow Tangents Podcast: http://www.scishowtangents.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/ochoa.pdf [PDF] https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2021/06/10/ellen-ochoa/ https://patents.justia.com/inventor/ellen-ochoa https://www.proquest.com/openview/94d9d0e59c343d6a8a5ce434086eee22/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y https://aps.org/careers/physicists/profiles/ochoa.cfm http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2017/MAR/HTML/cov-ochoa.html http://smithsonianeducation.org/scitech/impacto/text2/ellen/biography.html https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/E.-Ochoa/83217938?sort=pub-date http://electron9.phys.utk.edu/optics421/modules/m6/opticalprocess.htm https://www.nibib.nih.gov/science-education/science-topics/optical-imaging https://www.think-maths.co.uk/spreadsheet https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2346/20099/31295004829601.pdf?sequence=1 [PDF] https://www.hindawi.com/journals/aot/2010/372652/ https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/postsecondary/features/F_Astronaut_Requirements.html https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/606877main_FS-2011-11-057-JSC-astro_trng.pdf [PDF] Images: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/explorers-wanted-media-invited-to-experience-artemis-astronaut-training https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/international-space-station-orbiting-earth-in-space-spacex-nasa-research-iss-gm1248873601-363847213 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ellen_Ochoa,_official_portrait.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Light_dispersion_conceptual_waves.gif https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/abstract-image-of-high-speed-pink-blue-lines-composition-abstract-glow-neon-lines-gm1225778080-360918530 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/lcd-pixel-macro-gm121268955-1970832 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_lisa,_personal_computer,_1983_(1985).jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/circuit-blue-board-background-copy-space-computer-data-technology-artificial-gm1340728386-420715629 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/30-years-ago-sts-26-returns-shuttle-to-flight https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/ellen-ochoa-in-a-nasa-t-38-jet-trainer https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/a-variety-of-images-of-landscapes-and-animals-as-a-big-image-wall-gm1065390202-284894934 https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/17848/five-moons-and-saturn/ https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/7808/global-color-views-of-mars/ https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/blue-high-technology-abstract-background-gm853257264-140325085 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1990_NASA_Astronaut_Group.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS056-04-009_-_STS-056_-_Crewmember_in_the_aft_flight_deck._-_DPLA_-_353596a60f419bfdf8aee931cf87a455.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS056-91-054_-_Payload_bay_view_with_ATLAS_pallet_(Raw_scan).tif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ellen_Ochoa_(29320023973).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ellen_Ochoa_(29337849643).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS66_Ochoa.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamara_E._Jernigan_Discovery_crew.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/aerial-photograph-of-johnson-space-center-1 https://roundupreads.jsc.nasa.gov/pages.ashx/834/Johnson%20Director%20Ellen%20Ochoa%20elected%20to%20Vice%20Chair%20of%20National%20Science%20Board https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/astronaut-ellen-ochoa-prepares-for-training-session https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/673869


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