The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Mexico
This page contains a list of the greatest Mexican Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 524 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Mexico. This makes Mexico the birth place of the 38th most number of Astronauts behind Cameroon and South Korea.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Mexican Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Mexican Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Rodolfo Neri Vela (1952 - )
With an HPI of 43.46, Rodolfo Neri Vela is the most famous Mexican Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
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 after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronauts born between 1952 and 1952. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living astronauts include Rodolfo Neri Vela.
