Space Programs Mexico

Florida's commercial space agency plans to send up a small rocket from Mexico to study the July 11 solar eclipse after delays in getting U.S. permission to use an abandoned launch pad in the state. The launch from Tuxpan, a community between Mazatlan and Guadalajara, will be the first sponsored by a state. The first of Florida's suborbital rockets will fly from Mexico because a federal environmental review stopped the maiden flight from Cape San Blas on the state's west coast.

Florida's commercial space agency plans to send up a small rocket from Mexico to study the July 11 solar eclipse after delays in getting U.S. permission to use an abandoned launch pad in the state. The launch from Tuxpan, a community between Mazatlan and Guadalajara, will be the first sponsored by a state. The first of Florida's suborbital rockets will fly from Mexico because a federal environmental review stopped the maiden flight from Cape San Blas on the state's west coast.

Mexico must participate in the space programs of industrialized nations if it wants the benefits of developments in space-related technologies and research, the country's first astronaut said. Rodolfo Neri Vela, who participated in a mission of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis in November, 1985, said the government should actively cooperate with U.S., Soviet, Chinese and Japanese space research programs, the newspaper El Nacional reported Saturday.

Mexico must participate in the space programs of industrialized nations if it wants the benefits of developments in space-related technologies and research, the country's first astronaut said. Rodolfo Neri Vela, who participated in a mission of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis in November, 1985, said the government should actively cooperate with U.S., Soviet, Chinese and Japanese space research programs, the newspaper El Nacional reported Saturday.