Mexicans begin to develop a space industry in the country

The director general of the Mexican Space Agency (AEM), a decentralized body of the Ministry of Communications and Transportation (SCT), Javier Mendieta Jiménez, stated that the promotion of training and talent among Mexican youth has already yielded concrete results in the case of student Jonathan Sánchez Pérez, who has been honored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). .

Mendieta Jiménez congratulated Sánchez Pérez, a young man from Tultepec, State of Mexico, who returned from Russia where he took courses on satellites and microsatellites and opened up the possibility of pursuing a master's degree in rocket launch systems and cosmonautics.

The Mexican student has earned recognition from NASA for a project on Jupiter and will now participate in outreach activities carried out by the AEM in order to share his experiences so that other young people can approach the aerospace technology industry as a career path.

Jonathan Sánchez, who won the 2019 State Youth Award from the government of the State of Mexico, explained that this is the second time he has been invited to Russia, where he has completed educational programs on satellites in Moscow. He has also participated in the International Air and Space Program (IASP), organized by the company AEXA, at NASA.

Jonathan joins Juan Carlos Mariscal, who will be able to make the first commercial launch to the moon in 2021 with a company he created. Or that of three young people from Oaxaca—Félix Ricardo Pérez León and Carlos Uriel Cruz Jiménez, both 17, and Alan Alberto Cruz García, 19—who won first and second place in the “Robotchallenge 2019” in Beijing, China.

The General Coordinator of Human Capital Training at the AEM, Carlos Duarte Muñoz, highlighted that young Mexicans, thanks to their talent, are beginning to develop a space industry in their own country.