Former Astronaut to Address WOSA
WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 16 -- Former astronaut Ellen Ochoa will be the featured speaker at a meeting hosted by Women in OSA (WOSA) during the 2002 Optical Society of America (OSA) Annual Meeting and Exhibit, to be held Sept. 29-Oct. 3 in Orlando, Fla. The WOSA meeting will take place Sept. 30 from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Ochoa, a veteran of four space flights has logged over 978 hours in space. She was a mission specialist on flight STS-56 (1993), payload commander on STS-66 (1994) and a mission specialist and flight engineer on STS-96 (1999) and STS-110 (2002). As a doctoral student at Stanford...Read full article
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Published: September 2002