President Andrés Manuel López Obrador He stated that during his meeting with NASA executives (United States Aerospace Agency), proposed to the Mexican astronaut, Katya EchazarretaMexican woman traveling to outer space, to represent Mexico in next trips.
During his morning press conference on Tuesday, López Obrador explained that on April 23, AMLO met with Bill Nelsonadministrator of NASA, and Pamela Melroywhere they discussed various cooperation topics, including a future space trip in which they would like to have Mexican representation.
They told us that they wanted me to be Mexican and we proposed Katya, and the person in charge of seeing all this from NASA knows her and has a very good experience with her.
Regarding the role of Mexicans in collaboration with NASA and in general on the space issue, AMLO mentioned that they also talked about Rodolfo Neri Velahe first mexican astronaut in going to space, and whom Nelson recognized as his partner since “they were formed together”.
He also mentioned that, in addition to being scientifically recognized, Neri Vela is also remembered for making the tortilla part of the food in the shipssince “they incorporated the tortilla and it worked very well because they carry food and due to gravity the food fits the folded tortilla.”
It’s interesting what Mexico is, they have a lot of admiration for our country. More and more to the greatness of Mexico.
“With the idea of also helping Mexico on other issues, during the meeting the president stated that the satellite issueone that “matters a lot to us”, as well as in matters of water and fire controltopics that also arose in the visit and meeting with academics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
