User:Sedona315/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Ellen Ochoa

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
From the list provided, I selected Ellen Ochoa who is a female NASA astronaut. I selected her as I grew up visiting NASA often for school field trips and hoped to work for NASA one day too. It is amazing to see women who accomplish fantastic things in science! She also grew up in the same the same city I grew up in so it was interesting to read about a local icon.

Evaluate the article
Fantastic lead section. Short, sweet, gets to the point while retaining important information to understand who Dr. Ochoa is and what she had accomplished. The content is relevant and up to date, appearing to be updated frequently as there are references from 2020-2022. The tone for this article appeared to be neutral. Reliable sources were used from places such as Standford, NASA, and the air and space museum, which are reputable. Organization is well laid out which makes the article easy to read while gaining valuable information about the person of topic. Images used are professional, taken from her NASA headshots.

There is only one relevant question in the talk section which attempts to clarify the first hispanic person to go into space. It seems as a Latin American person, Franklin Chang-Diaz, went to space before Ellen Ochoa and the talk section discusses the origin of the person, latin vs. hispanic under Nixon, who got their American status first in attempts to clarify.

I enjoyed reading this article, and although short in length, I felt as I gained valuable information about Dr. Ochoa. Not truly unnecessary, but the information I enjoyed the most in the writing is that she played the flute in her marching band so she brought it with her to play in space!