A biography celebrating the life of astronaut, and former director of the Johnson Space Center, Ellen Ochoa, the first Latina in Space. Graduating at the top of her high school and college classes, thanks to encouragement from her mother, Ellen went on to study electrical engineering in graduate school. By age 30 she was an accomplished engineer and when NASA started to accept women and people of color into the astronaut program, Ellen soon embarked on a new career. Her first mission was on board the Discovery, the only woman aboard the space shuttle, making Ellen the first Latina to reach outer space.

• ISBN: 9780759554948
• Author: Doreen Rappaport
• Illustrator: Oliver Dominguez
• Published: 2023 , Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Themes: Astronauts, Discovery shuttle, engineer, Latina, Nasa, Outer Space, Women in history, women in science
• Descriptors: Americas, Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, Latinx in US, Nonfiction, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), United States
• No. of pages: 48