# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rodolfo-neri-vela
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:12:42.512Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rodolfo-neri-vela"
name: "Rodolfo Neri Vela"
slug: "rodolfo-neri-vela"
description: "Rodolfo Neri Vela 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 and the first Mexican astronaut."
tagline: "Mexican astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mexico.RodolfoNeriVela.01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "MX"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1952-02-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump