Yes I think Ellen Ochoa is a hero because some girls tried to hinder her learning by saying that girls are not good math students but she was a girl and she is a good math student so she did not let some girls hinder her learing. She applied for an astronaut program and she was not accepted. She was very disappointed that she was not accepted. She tried again and she got accepted. She was proud of herself. She is an astronaut now because it takes a lot of hard  work to be an astonaut and she is a hard worker. In the story it says that Ellen Ochoa is very talented in every class in school in every single class that is alot of hard working. This shows that Ellen Ochoa is a very hard worker. This reminds me of when spiderman saved the whole town from all of the bad scary villians. Thats why I think Ellen Ochoa is my hero. Her mother shoud be very proud of her.