Rodolfo Neri Vela

Date of submission Δ nombre = Rodolfo Neri Vela Δ Image Size = UD image = Mexico.RodolfoNeriVela.01.jpg Δ pie de imagen = Sail in 1985 Δ birth date = February 1952 (71 years) Δ place of birth = Chilpancingo de los Bravo, Guerrero, Mexico Studies = Mechanical-electric engineering Δ agency = NASA Δ missions = STS-61-B Δ insignia = ! Rodolfo Neri Vela (Chilpancingo de los Bravo, February 19, 1952) is a doctor in Mexican engineering. He was the first Mexican astronaut to go to space on his first mission and the second Latin American (the first was the cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez of Cuba), when a collaborative program was created between the Mexican Communications and Transportation Secretariat (SCT) and NASA.

Early Years

Rodolfo Neri Vela was born in the house of his paternal grandparents, on Calle 5 de Mayo number 11, in the center of the city of Chilpancingo de los Bravo, State of Guerrero. Together with his siblings, they moved to Iztacalco in Mexico City when Rodolfo was five years old.

Education

In 1975, he received a degree in mechanical-electrical engineering with a specialty in communications from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); he studied a master's degree in telecommunication systems between 1975 and 1976 at the University of Essex, in the United Kingdom; He obtained a PhD in electromagnetic radiation from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 1979, and at the same institution he conducted post-doctoral research for a year, focusing on waveguides.

She had completed primary school at the Instituto México Primaria, the Euterpe, Benito Juárez and Heroicos Cadetes School, of the SEP, secondary school in University Initiation, belonging to the National Preparatory School 2, and high school at the same National Preparatory School 2 from UNAM, at that time located in the historic center, studying area 2 (medical-biological) in order to study Metallurgical Chemistry.

Experience

Dr. Neri Vela participated, from 1989 to 1990, in the design of the Alfa Space Station, of the European Space Agency, and in recent years he has worked as a professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the UNAM, teaching courses mathematics, electromagnetic theory, electrical circuits, signal analysis, antennas and satellite communication, information resulting from his work at the Electrical Research Institute, in Mexico, in the Radiocommunications Group.

He has also worked at the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, USA, at the Institution of Electrical Engineers, United Kingdom, at the Mexican Association of Electrical and Electronic Communications Engineers and at the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers.

During 2010 and 2011 he collaborated in the creation of the Mexican Space Agency.

Uniform of Neri Vela preserved at the Technological Museum of Mexico City.

Space flight experience

He participated as a specialist in Mission STS-61-B of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, carrying out a series of experiments designed by Mexican scientists. The mission lifted off on the night of November 26, 1985 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and returned to land at Edwards US Air Force Base in California on December 3. The main objective was to put three communication satellites into orbit, Morelos II, AUSSATT II and SATCOM K-2.

News

He is dedicated to popularizing science and giving lectures on thermodynamics and space engineering. In 2014, she gave a conference at the Technological Institute of Ciudad Juárez, within the framework of the 50th anniversary of the institution, on astronomy. She encouraged the students to look for better job opportunities, to take advantage of Ciudad Juárez's location, which allows them to seek new horizons in the United States. & # 34; Without a doubt, he is a worthy Mexican who deserves respect and admiration for us, his compatriots & # 34; Vicente Fox Quesada. ^{[citation required]} Currently, he has living relatives in Leon and Salamanca Guanajuato

In 2016 he participated in the Latin American dubbing of the film "Finding Dory" as the narrator of the recording of the Marine Life Institute of the same name, due to his importance in the field of science in Mexico. For the voice of this recording in the adaptation of different dubbings, only recognized figures of science were chosen depending on the place of origin of the dubbing, in addition to keeping the original name of the person for the character, so in the Mexican version, the character is named after Rodolfo Neri Vela.

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