Ellen Ochoa Quotes
These robotic arms, provided by Canada, have been invaluable in allowing us to build, maintain, and repair space structures, and I've been very fortunate to have gotten to operate them.
Ochoa, Ellen. "Reflections on the Robotic Arm." NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
This was the first vehicle to be landed on a space object. On November 10, 1970, it was landed on the moon. It navigated, controlled by a driver on earth, for 9 months, sent back 22,000 pictures and conducted over 500 scientific experiments. A second was later landed also. It would be more than 20 years later that the United States developed and landed a rover vehicle on Mars. Lunokhod in Russian means “moon walker.” After the collapse of the Soviet Union, some of the Russian engineers who developed Lunokhod helped the U. S. scientists develop the Moon Rover.
A quantum computer is a radically different kind of computer that uses the physics of Quantum Mechanics—the latest of the large systemic Physics breakthroughs for which there has as yet been very little technology or practical applications. In theory quantum computing will be much more powerful and orders of magnitude faster than existing supercomputers.
Hine was emphasizing the importance of the worker, However, since 1932, there has been technological change. Behind the building of modern machines are still the brains of men, but not so much the toil anymore. Most machines are made in modern times by a combination of the “toil” of men and robots, and the proportion done by men is steadily decreasing. And this change has been a large factor of the loss of dignity and respect that the American manual worker has undergone.
Ellen Ochoa is an American engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. In 1993 Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Ochoa became director of the center upon the retirement of the previous director, Michael Coats, on December 31, 2012. She was the first Hispanic director and the second female director of Johnson Space Center.
