First female Hispanic flight director will be Grand Marshal for Sun Bowl Parade
First female Hispanic flight director will be Grand Marshal for Sun Bowl Parade
*This is a big deal – not so much the parade, but the flight director thing is huge. These are her creds: “Kerrick, the flight operations directorate division chief for […]
This Mexican College Robotics Team Just Owned a NASA Competition
*Check out this #MexicanThing. The Mexican team saw it as a statement victory. Team member Juan Carlos Mariscal said “We have the same abilities as any other student in the […]
How this son of migrant farm workers became an astronaut
*I don’t like to bandy the “must read” tag to get folks to read something. In this case, though, I read the article and felt good after. So I’ll say it’s […]
¡Bien Hecho! Latina Astronaut Inspires High School Students
By Louis Llovio, Richmond Times-Dispatch Serena Auñón, the second Hispanic woman to become a NASA astronaut, spoke to about 100 Latino high school students Friday to try to spark their interest in science […]
¡Bien Hecho! Latino Engineer Heads NASA Program
By EFE/Fox News Latino Los Angeles – Since 2012, a Mexican-American engineer has been in charge of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, program, which operates from the […]
So is the World Ending or What?
By Taina Haiman, Being Latino At the beginning of this year, as I pondered on New Year’s resolutions, I caught myself thinking, “What if this really is our last year on […]
CA’s José Hernández’s Congressional Platform: Jobs And Ed
San Diego, California — Migrant farmworker-turned-astronaut José Hernández is running for Congress as a Democrat in the 10th district of California on a very simple platform: “Jobs, jobs, jobs and […]
