NASA Researchers Recommend Yucatan as Ideal Location to Launch Spacecraft Raul Ponce de Leon Curmina - The Yucatan Times
go to original November 28, 2012

The most recent recommendation from NASA to install the Mexican Space Agency in Yucatan not only confirms that we were right to push in this direction, it was necessary a bit of political work to make this project a reality, said the federal deputy Beatriz Zavala Peniche, one of the promoters of this project.

Researchers and astronauts form the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reiterated the recommendation to settle in Yucatan the Mexican Space Agency in an event held in the University Modelo to celebrate its fifteenth anniversary.

“Although the lack vision of the former government Ivonne Ortega Pacheco to encourage the aerospace sector in our state, today the specialists, once again put these cards on the table”, said Zavala Peniche referring to the statements made by the Risk Manager of the NASA International Space Station Michael Lutomsky, who highlight the “good location” and the climatic conditions of the area.

Zavala Peniche considers that the promotion of the Mexican Space Agency in Yucatan allows, not only the development of protocols for scientific exchange and technological cooperation with other space agencies, but the participation of Yucatecans companies with technological capability to provide equipment, materials, supplies and services required by projects from the different agencies involved in the aerospace industry.

Michael Lutomsky urged the need of the Mexican Space Agency, “because Mexico participates in several research projects, and the channels of dialogue and cooperation need to be set, therefore, in the future Mexico can have its own agency to practice flights into space.”

The Federal Deputy agreed with the NASA researchers about the importance of resuming the work on the proposal to be built in Yucatan, the facility buildings to conduct research and flight plans to consolidate the industry in Mexico, and especially in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Michael Lutomsky said that currently there is no formal agreement, but Yucatan is a good place to launch spacecraft into space. Dr. Helen Baker, who has traveled into space three times, agreed that the State contains everything to host its own space station due to characteristics of this region.

Both participated in the fifteenth anniversary of the University Model.

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