Katya Echazarreta, the first Mexican woman to travel to space and current president of the Space Foundation, has become an inspiring figure for children and young people.
Katya decided to become a content creator when she started working at NASA. “When I talked about my work, they told me: ‘But are there women there? Are there Mexicans there?’” she remembers and assures that it was this lack of representation that prompted her to take an active role in the creation of content, because although she was happy and satisfied with that achievement, she felt that it was not enough because it was not he was doing the work necessary to be able to share all of these experiences with his community.
In the fall of 2019, she began from her personal accounts to share experiences about her time as a NASA engineer, the effort it took to get there, and the challenges and sacrifices she faced.
“I recognize the value of our words, the value of our achievements and in my case I recognize that there are thousands and thousands of people who want to achieve what I have achieved and I am working every day so that one day they can achieve it too,” he says. Katya Echazarreta.
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However, during this path of content creation he has faced several challenges: vulnerability. “My life completely changed when I started developing and creating all this content when I was a NASA engineer, but it multiplied when I was selected for this mission. (Today) not only am I a content creator, I am also a public figure,” she says.
This has borne fruit, since since then, Echazarreta has received messages from students, parents and young people who see in her an example to follow, a sign that they too can achieve what they dream of. As well as girls who dress up as her, wearing astronaut suits or even NASA engineers. “It is the most beautiful thing that exists in this world,” he says.
Their work is not limited to inspiring; It also seeks to guide those who want to make their way in these fields, as it has sought to promote the aerospace industry in the country through two reforms to the Constitution that seek to increase the budget of the Mexican Space Agency and create rocket launch bases that facilitate the installation of aerospace firms.
“For the new generations who seek to be content creators, I want to tell them that this path is very exciting, but it also entails great responsibility and we must accept it, and always take care of all those people who follow us and who are watching what we are doing. every day”.
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