Flight record
first and only flightFirst and only flight year 1985.
1Flight
6d 21hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Rodolfo Neri Vela (born 19 February 1952) is a Mexican scientist and astronaut who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission in the year 1985. He is the first Mexican, and the second Latin American to have traveled to space.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Chilpancingo de los Bravo
- Education
- University of Birmingham; National Autonomous University of Mexico; University of Essex
- Awards
- International Space Hall of Fame
From Wikidata.
Flights
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-61-BNovember 27, 1985
Born 1952-02-19 · age 74