Dorely Medina, 18 years old and originally from Nayarit, is a celebrity on social networks after it was announced that she was selected for the International Air and Spaceprogram of the POT which they only entered 60 young people from all over the world.
It was last November 13 when the young woman entered the program and her excitement was so great that she shared the news on her accounts. In addition, she said that it was very hard to have been selected.
The objective of the program is to design a project that can be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) and it will be a precedent in her career to become a great engineer or astronaut.
“Thank you for not giving up.”
“Day 1 representing Nayarit in the POT. Dear 8-year-old Dorely: thank you for not giving up, for dreaming big, for not resting until we get to where we are today,” she wrote excitedly on her social networks.
“Was achieved. We just arrived at US Space and Rocket Center and I had never felt so alive in my entire life. “I am Mexican, from Nayarit and I am at NASA,” she added.
Only 60 young people were accepted to the program, also known as STEMis dedicated to space engineering oriented to aeronautics, science and mathematics.
Dorely work on the project Astrocarewhich is focused on the health of astronauts and aims to permanently monitor, and with high-tech sensors, the vital signs and health of travelers.
Next to Katya Echazarreta, Dorely seeks to break stereotypes and the machismo that prevails in the world of science.
“All the women who have achieved something, who have come out of these stereotypes, I feel that it is not enough that you have arrived if you are not returning to your community and to all the girls (…) we must recognize that we did not arrive alone “We always have to recognize that someone shook our hand at some point,” he said. Kate last March at a Unicef forum in Mexico.
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Although more and more women are involved in aeronautics and engineering, it is evident that there is still a large gender gap. Proof of this is the contrast of women’s names compared to men’s, and whose battle began with Valentina Tereshkovawho at 26 years old, became the first woman to visit outer space.
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