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

SAN ANTONIO – 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 eclipse.

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.

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KSAT 12 recently spoke with her about what we can learn from this amazing natural phenomenon.

“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 dynamics…