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Meet the Latina Engineer That Helped Get NASA’s Artemis II to the Moon

Sandra Lopez — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:20:01 +0000

Artemis II’s historic mission to the moon has marked a turning point for human space exploration. The space flight is the first crewed deep-space mission launched by NASA since 1972’s Apollo 17 mission– and behind this aerospace milestone is a team of scientists, astronauts, and engineers, including Venezuelan engineer, Nathalie Quintero. Born in Caracas, Venezuela,

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WATCH: NASA Team Goes Viral for Dancing to Banda During the 2024 Eclipse in Mazatlán

Lissete Lanuza Sáenz — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:03:08 +0000

A NASA team has gone viral on social media for educating while embracing Mexican culture during the 2024 solar eclipse. The team was present in Mazatlán, Mexico, the first North American city to see a total solar eclipse. They were there to do research on the eclipse but also to hand out eclipse glasses, educate

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INTERVIEW: NASA’s Zaida Hernández on Building a Path to Space for Latinas & ‘The Marvels’

Lissete Lanuza Sáenz — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 18:51:18 +0000

Zaida Hernández might not be an actual superhero in the MCU definition of the word, but the multifaceted spacecraft engineer, children’s book author, STEM program mentor, and content creator is probably as close as we will get in real life to one. Hernández, the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants and the first to graduate from college,

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Salvadoran-American Astronaut Frank Rubio Returns to Earth — & Sets New Record

Kiko Martinez — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 20:15:01 +0000

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is back home on Earth after spending an unexpected year in space. He and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin made a parachute landing in their capsule in Kazakhstan on Wednesday (September 27). Rubio was scheduled to spend six months aboard the International Space Station with his colleagues. However, his mission

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INTERVIEW: Former Astronaut José Hernández Shares ‘Five-Ingredient Recipe’ That Got Him to Space

Kiko Martinez — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:32:39 +0000

For most of his life, former NASA astronaut José Hernández has lived by a set of directives that have guided him to success. Labeled as his “five-ingredient recipe,” they were shared with him by his father who, along with his mother and the rest of the family, sustained themselves as migrant farmworkers when he was

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WATCH: First Mexican Farmworker to Become NASA Astronaut Gets Biopic in ‘A Million Miles Away’ Trailer

Kiko Martinez — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:15:39 +0000

Ever since José Hernández was a kid, he wanted to touch the stars. As part of a farm-working family in California, his dream to become an astronaut might have seemed like an impossible goal in the eyes of others, but not to Hernández. In 2009, Hernández got the chance to live out his dream when

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NASA Aerospace Engineer Shares Her Journey & Explains Why ‘Not Even the Sky’s the Limit’

Kiko Martinez — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 22:00:32 +0000

Growing up on Army bases throughout Puerto Rico in the 1990s, Joan Melendez Misner remembers playing with Barbie dolls like little girls do. She also remembers spending a lot of time pretending she was a scientist and looking at fake bacteria under a toy microscope. “I’d put my little lab coat on and be like,

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Frank Rubio Becomes NASA’s First Salvadoran-American to Go to Space

Kiko Martinez — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:53:27 +0000

Lt. Col. (Dr.) Frank Rubio has made it to space – and into the history books. On Wednesday (September 21), the active-duty Army physician and astronaut, became NASA’s first Salvadoran-American to visit the cosmos. Rubio launched on Expedition 68 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, aboard a Soyuz MS-22 rocket. Along with him for the

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These Puerto Rican Students Designed a Satellite That NASA Will Launch into Space

Kiko Martinez — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 14:09:30 +0000

Students from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico’s School of Engineering in Bayamón are making history. They have designed and developed the first Puerto Rican satellite that NASA will launch into space. The satellite, known as the PR-CuNaR2, will take its maiden voyage as part of Mission 23 for Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX. Over

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The Exact Opposite of a Stereotype: Coral Peña Reflects on Playing a NASA Engineer in ‘For All Mankind’

Kiko Martinez — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:22:30 +0000

In the last six years, Dominican American actress Coral Peña has worked in Hollywood, and taken on projects like her role in Steven Spielberg’s 2017 film The Post. She feels lucky that she’s yet to get a script where a character she is auditioning for is described as a “Latin lover.” “I’ve heard the horror

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