Venezuelan engineer works on NASA’s new lunar mission

Nathalie Quintero is an aerospace engineer who has been working on NASA’s Artemis program for seven years, and she will perform the first test launch of the Space Launch System rocket this Monday.

Quintero, through his Instagram account, published the work done by the group over the years, posting positive and ambitious messages about the power of Latinos to achieve great things, especially for women.

Nathalie was born in Caracas, where she spent most of her life. His mom is an industrial engineer from El Salvador and his dad is a retired Navy pilot. She has been involved in space issues since she was a child and her parents encouraged her.

“At 28, she is the Venezuelan footprint of the Artemis project, which aims to lead the first woman to set foot on our satellite and, more so, contribute to a new era of spaceflight,” reviews Historia’s Q Layton. Highlight his career at NASA.

A few hours before the test, which will be conducted at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the young woman born in Caracas, unable to control her emotions, started a countdown on her Instagram account, in which she shared the progress of the mission and explained what was happening.

The 98-meter (322-foot) Space Launch System rocket is the most powerful ever built by NASA. Half a century after NASA’s Apollo program, which brought 12 astronauts to the moon, it is set to send an empty capsule into lunar orbit.

If this six-week test trip goes well, astronauts could return to the moon in a few years. However, NASA acknowledges that the risks are high and the flight could be disrupted.

Instead of astronauts, three test dummies are built into the Orion capsule to measure vibration, acceleration and radiation, one of the greatest hazards to humans in deep space. The capsule alone has more than 1,000 sensors.

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