The Mission commanded by a Hispanic North American

On January 18, the AX3 mission left for the international space station, a mission that, although American was made up of Europeans, was even captained by a Spanish nationalized American Miguel López Joy, Miguel was born in Madrid although his parents emigrated to the United States when he was still very small.

He was the first astronaut born in Spain and currently has dual nationality, speaks English, French, Spanish and Russian, he spent his career at NASA and accumulated an impressive resume, achieving three missions on the space shuttle and one on the Soyuz ship to which there are In addition to Axiom Space missions, it has so far carried out 10 spacewalks.

If we add up all the time that Miguel has spent outside a ship, doing a spacewalk, it would amount to almost 3 days. His experience has made Lopez Alegría the commander of the mission, and pilot Walter Villadei of the air force will also go with him. Italian and mission specialists Alper Gezeravci from Turkey and Marcus Wandt from Sweden.

They arrived at the international space station on January 20 and there they will carry out about 30 experiments for about 14 days, completing research in the field of microgravity and will also hold technology demonstrations and informative events.

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