Kathryn Lueders, a pioneer in the space industry who has dedicated her career to promoting the exploration and conquest of space as a senior NASA official in the direction of space missions, highlighted AEM.
The Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT), through the Mexican Space Agency (AEM), presented Space-X, the world’s leading company in space exploration, in Mexico for the first time within the framework of the National Congress of Space Activities. (CONACES 2024).
The general director of the AEM, Salvador Landeros Ayala, welcomed the presence of Kathryn Lueders, a pioneer in the space industry who has dedicated her career to promoting the exploration and conquest of space as a senior NASA official in the direction of space missions.
Considered “a right arm” of Space-X CEO Elon Musk, Lueders currently directs the “Starbase”, the industrial and rocket launch complex of that company, located near Brownsville, Texas, in the United States, on the border with Tamaulipas.
He is also the leader of “Starship”, a project that promises to revolutionize space exploration, and, in his conference “Gateway to Mars” he presented his experience and knowledge in the planning and execution of large-scale space missions.
Lueders pointed out that more than 80% of Space-X employees are from the Rio Grande Valley, and the audience, with a high percentage of young Tamaulipas, applauded when she expressed “Yes, you can be a space scientist here in the valley.”
He stressed that there is no other place in the world like Starbase, where rockets are built, tested and launched, and that there are also developers passionate about space who live nearby, which allows them to keep an eye on everything and deal with problems immediately.
He told them about the beginnings of the Space-X company under the vision of Elon Musk, about the different projects they are developing, and stressed that “transforming humanity into an interplanetary species by reaching Mars is a great dream for this company.” .
Lueders made an impact by questioning the traditional culture of fear of failure, saying “Here, if we have a failure, we work so that it can be contained in the safest way, the best way to learn and grow is through failure, and in Space-X, our culture is always trying.”
Due to their talent and capacity, some Mexican companies have already begun to obtain contracts as suppliers of Space-X components, so Lueders’ stellar presence strengthens and expands the ties between that leading company and our national technology industry.
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COMMUNICATION 027- 2024
