Rodolfo Neri Vela
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| Country: | Mexico |
| Organization: | SCT |
| selected on | July 1985 |
| Calls: | 1 space flight |
| Begin: | November 27, 1985 |
| Landing: | 3rd December 1985 |
| Time in space: | 6d 21h 04m |
| retired on | December 1985 |
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Rodolfo Neri Vela (born February 19, 1952 in Chilpancingo , Mexico ) is the first and so far only Mexican spaceman .
The Italian -spanischsstämmige Neri Vela studied at the National University of Mexico , mechanical engineering and electrical engineering and acquired in 1975 the Bachelor diploma. The following year the University of Essex awarded him a master's degree in telecommunications. He then did research in the field of electromagnetic radiation and received a doctorate from the University of Birmingham in 1979 .
Neri Vela was a payload specialist and as such took part in the space shuttle mission STS-61-B on the space shuttle Atlantis in 1985.
See also
Web links
Commons : Rodolfo Neri Vela - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Short biography of Rodolfo Neri Vela at spacefacts.de
- Biography of Rodolfo Neri Vela in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- Rodolfo Neri Vela in the "International Space Hall of Fame" of the New Mexico Museum of Space History (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ben Evans, Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit. The Eighties and Early Nineties , 2012, p. 423
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| SURNAME | Neri Vela, Rodolfo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | mexican astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th February 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chilpancingo , Mexico |