Mexico receives Space-X for the first time at CONACES 2024

MEXICO - The Mexican Space Agency (AEM) presented Space-X, the world's leading company in space exploration, for the first time in Mexico during the National Congress of Space Activities (CONACES 2024).

Salvador Landeros Ayala, Director General of the AEM, welcomed the presence of Kathryn Lueders, a pioneer in the space industry who has dedicated her career to promoting the exploration and conquest of space as a senior NASA official in the management of space missions.

Considered a right-hand woman to Space-X CEO Elon Musk, Lueders currently heads Starbase, the company's rocket launch and industrial complex located near Brownsville, Texas, in the United States, on the border with Tamaulipas.

She is also the leader of Starship, a project that promises to revolutionize space exploration, and, in her lecture “Gateway to Mars” she presented her experience and expertise in planning and executing large space missions.

Lueders pointed out that more than 80% of Space-X employees are from the Rio Grande Valley, and the audience, with a high percentage of young Tamaulipecos, applauded when she expressed “yes, you can be a space scientist here in the Valley”.

She emphasized that there is no other place in the world like Starbase, where rockets are built, tested and launched, and that there are also developers passionate about space who live nearby, which allows them to be aware of everything and take care of problems on the spot.

He told them about the beginnings of the Space-X company under the vision of Elon Musk, about the different projects they are developing, and stressed that “transforming humanity into an interplanetary species by reaching Mars is a big dream for this company”.

Lueders made an impact by questioning the traditional culture of fear of failure, saying “here, if we have a failure, we work so that it can be contained in the safest way, the best way to learn and grow, is through failure, and in Space-X, our culture is always to try”.

Because of their talent and capacity, some Mexican companies have already begun to win contracts as suppliers of Space-X components, so the stellar presence of Lueders strengthens and expands the ties between this leading company and our national technology industry.