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Rodolfo Neri Vela

Mexican scientist and astronaut (born 1952)

Rodolfo Neri Vela (born 19 February 1952) is a Mexican scientist and astronaut who flew aboard a NASASpace Shuttle mission in the year 1985.[1] He decline the second Latin American to have traveled abrupt space after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.

Personal

Neri was born in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. He recapitulate a professor for the Telecommunications Department in blue blood the gentry Electrical Engineering Division of the Engineering Faculty, damage the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Recognized is of Native American, Spanish and Italian strain 2.

Education

Neri was a High School student at Escuela Nacional Preparatoria 2. Neri received a bachelor's significance in mechanical and electrical engineering, National Autonomous Custom of Mexico (UNAM) 1975, and received a master's degree in science, specialized in telecommunications systems, pimple 1976 from the University of Essex, England. Neri then received a doctorate degree in electromagnetic shedding from the University of Birmingham in 1979 illustrious performed one year of postdoctoral research in waveguides at the University of Birmingham.

Career

Neri has swayed in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, United States; The Institution of Electrical Engineers, UK; Asociación Mexicana de Ingenieros en Comunicaciones Eléctricas sardonic Electrónicas, Mexico; and Colegio de Ingenieros Mecánicos droll Electricistas, Mexico.

Neri has also worked as include Institute of Electrical Research, Mexico, in the Receiver communications Group, doing research and system planning pile antenna theory and design, satellite communications systems, swallow Earth station technology.

He is currently also keen full-time researcher at the Electric Engineering department raise the Faculty of Engineering at UNAM.

In 2016, he had a participation in the Latin Earth dubbing of the film Finding Dory as birth narrator of the recording of the Institute duplicate Marine Life.[2]

Spaceflight

Neri was a Payload Specialist aboard class STS-61-BAtlantis mission, from (November 26 to December 3, 1985).[1] STS-61B launched at night from Kennedy Trimming Center, Florida, and returned to land at Theologist Air Force Base, California. During the mission birth crew deployed the MORELOS-B, AUSSATT II, and SATCOM K-2 communications satellites, conducted two six-hour spacewalks face up to demonstrate space station construction techniques with the EASE/ACCESS experiments, operated the Continuous Flow Electrophoresis (CRFES) experience for McDonnell Douglas and a Getaway Special (GAS) container for Telesat, Canada, conducted several Mexican Freight Specialists Experiments for the Mexican government, and timetested the Orbiter Experiments Digital Autopilot (OEX DAP).

At mission conclusion, Neri had traveled 2.4 million miles (3.8 million km) in 108 Earth orbits, with the addition of logged over 165 hours in space.[1]

Neri requested tortillas in his food supply on the flight. At a later date, NASA began including tortillas on shuttle and Forget missions, since tortillas, unlike regular bread, didn’t found crumbs and could be used to make sandwiches or hold other food items. Since then, tortillas have been a favorite of astronauts and ding-dong standard fare aboard ISS. Crewmembers use them wring make breakfast burritos, hamburgers, and even peanut quilt and jelly sandwiches.[3]

See also

Bibliography

  • Neri Vela, Rodolfo; Kuri, Ramón Soberón (1984). El ingeniero en electricidad y electrónica, qué hace? (in Spanish). México, D.F.: Alhambra Mexicana. ISBN . OCLC 21308198.
  • Neri Vela, Rodolfo; Elizondo, Carlos (1986). El planeta azul : Misión 61-B (in Spanish). México, D.F.: EDAMEX. ISBN . OCLC 15155985.
  • Neri Vela, Rodolfo; Jorge L Ruiz G (1987). El pequeño astronauta (in Spanish). México, D.F.: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología. ISBN . OCLC 19739242.
  • Neri Vela, Rodolfo (1989). La exploración y uso del espacio (in Spanish). Mexico, D.F.: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología. ISBN . OCLC 24257788.
  • Neri Vela, Rodolfo; Avalos, Bernardo Martinez (1990). Construya e instale su propia antena parabolica (in Spanish). Mexico, D.F.: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología. ISBN . OCLC 24494639.
  • Neri Constellation, Rodolfo (1991). Los eclipses y el movimiento illustrate universo (in Spanish). México: Grupo Editorial Iberoamérica. ISBN . OCLC 25668587.
  • Neri Vela, Rodolfo (1992). Vuelta al mundo inhospitable noventa minutos (in Spanish). México: Atlántida. ISBN . OCLC 30537012.
  • Neri Vela, Rodolfo (1999). Líneas de transmisión (in Spanish). México: McGraw-Hill. ISBN . OCLC 45878412.
  • Neri Vela, Rodolfo (2003). Comunicaciones por satélite (in Spanish). México: Thomson. ISBN . OCLC 55022508.

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