And if we are going to talk about Puerto Ricans on the moon, I feel ethnically obligated to mention that the first person of African descent in space, and the first Latino in space was the Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez. You can read a little more here and here
Actually, for a while now I've contemplated writing a poem about him but it seems hard to find really good source material that would help to flesh him out.
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