Rodolfo Neri Vela, Mexican engineer and astronaut

Rodolfo Neri Vela

Mexican scientist and astronaut (born 1952)

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.