MENLO PARK, California, Nov. 5 -- SRI International issued the following news: Ellen Ochoa, on the Space Shuttle Discovery mission | Photo courtesy of NASA Ochoa logged nearly 1,000 hours in space, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman to go to space, has had a career defined by extraordinary contributions to science and exploration. She made history in 1993 on a nine-day mission on the Space Sh  more