Ricardo Peralta y Fabi (August 15, 1950 – December 31, 2017) was a Mexican mechanical engineer and former astronaut trainee
who was a backup for astronaut
Rodolfo Neri Vela
Rodolfo Neri Vela (born 19 February 1952) is a Mexican scientist and astronaut who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission in the year 1985. He is the second Latin American to have traveled to space.
Personal
Neri was born in Chilpancingo, Gue ...
on
STS-61-B
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Peralta was one of three people selected among 400 applicants to the Mexican
space program
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Accident
Peralta was the alternate of the first Mexican astronaut Rodoflo Neri Vela at the time of the ultralight accident (bought as remuneration for astronaut training), in which he was seriously injured. He was unable to complete astronaut training and training at Indiana University. He left the
corps of astronauts on 3 December 1985.
He taught at the University in Mexico City for many years after his astronaut career and died in 2016.
See also
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List of Hispanic astronauts
The following is a list of persons from Spanish-speaking countries or of Hispanic descent who have travelled into space, sorted by date of first flight.
The first country listed is that of citizenship; the second, if any, is that of the Spanish-s ...
References
1950 births
2017 deaths
Mexican mechanical engineers
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