Rodolfo Neri Vela

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Rodolfo Neri Vela is a Mexican scientist and astronaut who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission in the year 1985. He is the second Latin American to have traveled to space after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.

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politician, engineer, astronaut, 

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  • STS-61-B
    human spaceflight
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