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tahanson43206

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Mexico - Human Mission to Mars

While surfing the Internet, I noticed an article about a young Mexican citizen who expressed an interest in space. She is (apparently) studying engineering at present.

At the bottom of the article appeared this snippet:

Her inspirations include late physicist, Stephen Hawking, and Carmen Félix, a Mexican engineer currently developing a plan to launch a manned mission to Mars.

We have a member who is a resident of Mexico.

If anyone is able to discover anything that might be published about Carmen Félix, please post it here.

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Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: Mexico - Human Mission to Mars

Maybe

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carmen-Felix-2

https://twitter.com/astrocarmenfeli

https://www.instagram.com/astrocarmenfelix/

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credited in part for the creation of the Mexican Space Agency as well as promoting space-related careers in her native country. Her work has been recognized by her home state of Sinaloa and Quien magazine named her as one of 50 Mexicans transforming the country. Carmen Victoria Félix Chaidez is a scientist, engineer and first Mexican to work on simulations for future Mars missions with space analogues.
In 2011, she participated in Mars Analogue Research Station Program, with the Austrian Space Forum, working to design a spacesuit specific to Mars. The project went to the Riotinto Mines in Spain, whose desert conditions are similar to that of Mars. For one week, the group camped at the site, testing the suit's mobility and communication systems.
Félix moved to the Netherlands to work for the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety. She also is part of the Network of Mexican Talents Abroad in the Dutch capital. She continues work to organize and execute Mars simulations, as well as continuing to promote space related activities in Mexico and for its students, organizing conferences and generating funds for scholarships.
At the end of the internship in 2009, she was asked to stay on with NASA, which she accepted even before finishing her master's program. Félix became the first and only Mexican scientist working at the agency. Her record there prompted NASA to look into finding more talent in Mexico.
In 2016, she participated with the Mars Society as part of a crew simulating a mission to the planet at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah

http://sinaloensesejemplares.com/carmen … x-chaidez/

http://www.conacytprensa.mx/index.php/s … el-espacio

https://www.forbes.com.mx/author/erick-zuniga/