The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradorhe revealed this Tuesday during his morning conference that he proposed in a meeting with directors of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (POT) that the Mexican astronaut Kate Echazarreta be taken into account for a mission to space or the Moon.
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“It was left to be a Mexicanthey proposed it and we agreed agreementand we are proposing Katya, but they are going to decide, nothing more than Katya has outstanding a lot and they know it, but in the end they are going to decide,” commented the federal president from National Palace.
“They are very interested in me participating Mexicoin which Mexicans participate, in a plan of friendship sincere, you see that when we talk about satelite, you always think of a spy satellite. When we were children there in Tepetitan“We went out at night to see the satellites.”
Echazarreta She became the first Mexican woman to go to space as part of the mission Blue Origin NS-21after traveling aboard the spaceship New Shepard in 2022. Born in Guadalajara and moved to United Statess when I was 7 years old.
The engineer attended a community college in San DiegoCalifornia, and later attended the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), where she graduated as an electrical engineer.
She managed to become an intern at the Propulsion Laboratories of the POT (JPL, for its acronym in English), and worked on five missions of the POTincluding Perseverance and Europa Clipper.
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