Agencia Espacial Mexicana

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The Mexican Space Agency (in Spanish: Agencia Espacial Mexicana, AEXA) is a proposed space agency awaiting its approval in the Senate of Mexico after receiving a significant vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies on April 26, 2006.^[1]

The project, lobbied by many Mexican scientists but particularly by former astronaut Rodolfo Neri Vela and former NASA contractor Fernando de la Peña,^[2] intends to promote the development of space-related technologies, increase competitiveness among Mexican companies and resume research performed by the former National Commission for Outer Space (Comisión Nacional del Espacio Exterior, CONEE), which existed between 1962 and 1977.^[3]

According to Javier Castellón Fonseca, current president of the Science and Technology Commission of the Mexican Senate, the project is currently on hold due to the lack of interest of Luis Téllez Kuenzler, current Secretary of Communications and Transportation.^[4]

[edit] See also

List of space agencies

[edit] External links

Official initiative at the Mexican Senate (in Spanish)
Unofficial website at Divulgación Astronómica, A.C. (in Spanish)
TV coverage by Televisa Newscast in YouTube: Part 1, Part 2 (in Spanish)
Ricardo Cerón (El Universal):Decisión histórica, crear agencia espacial (in Spanish).

[edit] References

^ Héctor Guerrero. Tendrá México su agencia espacial (Spanish). Noticieros Televisa.
^ Tania Molina Ramírez. Discuten creación de agencia espacial mexicana (Spanish). La Jornada.
^ Norma Ávila Jiménez (October 8, 2006). La Agencia Espacial Mexicana (Spanish). La Jornada.
^ Gabriel Sosa (October 9, 2007). Agencia Espacial Mexicana (Spanish). “la dictaminación del proyecto no avanza por el desdén del gobierno federal, en específico del titular de la Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT), Luis Téllez, quien desde hace más de tres meses no ha querido reunirse con los senadores de la comisión encargada de darle el cauce correspondiente al documento”