Rodolfo Neri Vela

Rodolfo Neri Vela

astronaut

BIRTHDAY February 19, 1952
BIRTH SIGN Pisces
BIRTHPLACE Mexico
AGE 73 years old
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ABOUT RODOLFO NERI VELA

The first Mexican and second Latin American to go to space. He also worked as a scientist.

He earned a PhD in electromagnetic radiation in 1979.

He flew on one Space Shuttle mission aboard the Atlantis.

He is of Spanish and Italian ancestry.

He is an engineer like Mercedes-Benz namesake Karl Benz .