Ellen Ochoa

1. Work Ochoa performed at Sandia National Laboratories prior to NASA.
4. Heritage celebrated by Ochoa's pioneering achievements in space exploration.
5. Role Ochoa earned by creating optical systems for information processing.
8. Field involving remote arm operation that Ochoa helped control in space.
10. Ochoa's operational role as a Mission _____ on space shuttle flights.
12. Profession Ochoa entered in 1990 after joining NASA.
14. Texas space center that Ochoa led from 2013 to 2018.
16. University where Ochoa earned her master's degree and doctorate in electrical engineering.

2. Technical field in which Ochoa earned her Ph.D.
3. Ochoa holds three of these for optical research system inventions.
6. Ochoa served as the first Hispanic leader of the Johnson Space Center in this role.
7. Classical instrument Ochoa famously played while orbiting Earth.
9. Ochoa was the first woman of this heritage to travel to space.
11. Space Shuttle that carried Ochoa on her historic 1993 mission.
13. Earth path completed many times during Ochoa's four spaceflights.
15. Federal agency where Ochoa spent her career as a researcher, astronaut, and administrator.
17. Specialized branch of physics central to Ochoa's research inventions.