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Sandra Cauffman Portrait
From the collection of NASA Image and Video Library. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
“I came [to the United States] in ’83 and in ’98, I was invited to go back to Costa Rica. The first Hispanic astronaut that NASA ever had is a Costa Rican — Franklin Chang Diaz. So everyone was talking about Franklin. At that point I had been working for NASA for seven years. All of a sudden, I had little girls and women coming to me, wanting to ask me about engineering. I resisted it at first, because I thought, they only care about the astronauts. That’s what ran through my head at first.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineSandra Cauffman Portrait. NASA/HQ, 2021-09-17. Public domain. ID: NHQ202109170001.
