Madrid / Belmont / Santa Clara / Anaheim / Mission Viejo / Lima / Irvington / Albuquerque / Stockton / New York City / Buenos Aires / League City / La Mesa / San José / Rochester / Inglewood / Los Angeles / Medellín / North Hollywood / Jersey City / /
Country
Peru / Colombia / Dominican Republic / Iraq / Costa Rica / Mexico / Kuwait / Argentina / Spain / Kuwait and Iraq / /
Event
Natural Disaster / Employment Change / /
Facility
University of Houston / Johnson Space Center / Stanford University / Webster College / University of Arizona / University of Texas-El Paso / Harvard University / University of California-Santa Barbara / University of Connecticut / French Camp / San Diego State University / Agency’s Johnson Space Center / University of Central Florida / State University of New York / University of Southern California / International Space Station / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Rice University / Florida Institute of Technology / /
IndustryTerm
aerospace technology / /
Organization
U.S. Air Force / University of California-Santa Barbara / Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government Program for Senior Executives / Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans / Rice University / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA / Space Shuttle’s STS-128 mission / Peace Corps / University of Southern California / Florida Institute of Technology / University of Houston / STS-117 Shuttle mission / U.S. Marine Corps / Webster College / United States Navy / U.S. Naval Academy / U.S. Air Force Academy / Shuttle’s STS-120 mission / University of Texas / Harvard University / STS-128 mission / NASA’s Johnson Space Center / University of Connecticut / San Diego State University / Space Shuttle’s STS-119 mission / Naval Postgraduate School / United States Marine Corps / Agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston / University of the Pacific / State University of New York / Expedition / Stanford University / University of Central Florida / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists / University of Arizona / /
Person
LOPEZ-ALEGRIA / JOSÉ M. HERNÁNDEZ / ELLEN OCHOA / SIDNEY M. GUTIERREZ / CARLOS I. NORIEGA / GEORGE D. ZAMKA / JOSEPH M. ACABA / FRANKLIN R. CHANG DÍAZ / /
Position
Captain / President / classical flutist and pilot / pilot / astronaut / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel / teacher / Deputy Director / worker / commander / research engineer / Educator Astronaut / mission specialist / fully trained mission specialist / science teacher / /
Product
Loria / Caldeiro / Olivas / /
ProvinceOrState
Southern California / New York / Connecticut / New Mexico / California / Arizona / Texas / New Jersey / Massachusetts / /
National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA’s Hispanic Astronauts JOSEPH M. ACABA—Born in 1967 in Inglewood, CA, and raised in Anaheim, CA. Acaba, a former science teacher, was selected by the National Aeron