Astronaut Ellen Ochoa talks to KSAT 12 about upcoming total solar eclipse

– In less than two weeks, people from around the world including astronauts will be coming to Texas to get a view of the total solar

Veteran astronaut Ellen Ochoa was the first Latina astronaut to go into space. She spent nearly 1,000 hours in space from 1993 to 2002, and in 2013, she became the 11th director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. RELATED: First Latina astronaut Ellen Ochoa reflects on career, shares message to women and young girls

“First of all, I hope it gets people interested in what astronomy can teach us, about all the objects and particularly the ones that we see every day. The sun and the moon, as well as the Earth. How they sort of interact and learn a little bit more about orbital dynamic“For scientists, it is also another great opportunity, particularly to study the corona of the sun, because with the rest of the sun blocked out there are ways that you can now collect data that you couldn’t.

KSAT 12′s weather team has been nonstop covering stories related to the upcoming total solar eclipse.He asked Ochoa if she has ever talked with anyone who has been in space when the eclipse took place.“There’s some photos and some video. You can look at it from the 2017 eclipse. I think you could just, look it up online. It’s essentially showing the shadow on Earth from the eclipse. We had people in space in 2017. We’ve got them in space now.

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