Katya Echazarreta became the first Mexican to go into space thanks to Blue Origin.

New Shepard, Blue Origin’s suborbital rocket, made its fifth manned flight on June 4 as part of a six-person mission in which the name Katya Ehazarreta; electrical engineer and scientific communicator She became the first Mexican to cross the Karman Line. and therefore having been in space thanks to the company founded by Jeff Bezos and the help Space for mankind.

Katya Echazarreta was born in Mexico in 1996 and moved with her family to California, USA at the age of 7. At the age of 18, Echazarreta enrolled at the City College of San Diego, where he studied electrical engineering from 2013 to 2016, and graduated in 2019 from the University of California, Los Angeles. During her studies, the 26-year-old Mexican worked as a research assistant at the University of California at Los Angeles in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Henry Samuel, and also completed a one-year internship at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL, abbreviation in English), although she later went full-time as an engineer at JPL, more specifically the Europa Clipper and Perseverance projects.

After graduating from the University of California at Los Angeles and completing a year of internship at NASA, Katya Ehazarreta took part in the PoSSUM project. There she received training to become a suborbital scientific astronaut. Both her studies and her experience at NASA seem to have motivated her to become a science communicator. And this is Ehazarreta share information related to science and space through platforms such as YouTube or TikTok. They also helped him, of course, both in space flight and in continuing his studies. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University.

Katya Ehazarreta went into space thanks to Space for mankind

on his twitter profile. The aerospace company also shared photos of the moment Katya and the rest of the crew reached the Karman Line.

The look changes you. #NS21 pic.twitter.com/3gWo5yjDlM

— blue origin (@blueorigin) June 4, 2022