The Mexican Space Agency (AEM) celebrated the 38th anniversary of the participation of the first Mexican astronaut, Dr. Rodolfo Neri Vela, on the mission that put the Morelos 2 satellite into orbit.
AEM Director General and Director of the National Satellite System in 1985, Salvador Landeros Ayala, recalled that Neri traveled to space aboard the space shuttle Atlantis as part of NASA’s STS-61B mission.
During the mission, the Mexican conducted a series of experiments and made an important contribution to space travel: the introduction of amaranth and tortillas as a staple food for astronauts.
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“Dr. Neri, a communications and electronics engineer from UNAM, with a master’s degree in telecommunications systems from the University of Essex in England, and a PhD in the same country from the University of Birmingham, filled Mexico with pride and emotion.”
On the night of November 26, 1985, the space mission was launched from Cape Canaveral after the Morelos 2 satellite was placed in orbit.
The launch of Morelos I and Morelos II represented the first generation of telecommunications satellites in Mexico and were launched on NASA’s Discovery and Atlantis shuttles on June 17 and November 26, 1985, respectively.
Source: La Neta Neta
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