Ellen Ochoa in 1993
The first Hispanic male astronaut was Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez. Mr. Mendez was born in Cuba, and his mission was in 1980.
Ellen Ochoa
She was the first Hispanic to be an astronaut.
Ellen Ochoa
The first Hispanic woman astronaut.
The first Hispanic woman astronaut.
Bing the first female Hispanic astronaut.
Bing the first female Hispanic astronaut.
Franklin Chang Diaz, a native of Costa Rica, was the first Hispanic-American citizen to travel to space. However, Sidney M. Gutierrez was the first American-born Hispanic to travel to space.
The first man in space was Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, as far as I know, he was Russian, not Hispanic.
Astronaut Ellen Ochoa was born on May 10, 1958, in Los Angeles, California. Selected by NASA in 1990, Ochoa became the world's first Hispanic female astronaut in 1991
she is famous for being the first Hispanic female Astronaut