Rodolfo Neri Vela

Status: Retired
2/19/1952 –
Nationality: Mexican
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/27/1985
Last Flight: 11/27/1985

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 first Mexican, and the second Latin American to have traveled to space.