Thrusters Unlimited assured that long gone are those times when working in the aerospace industry was only limited to NASA, since now the opening is much greater and there is great development of companies in different countries and something very important is that there is room for Mexicans.
The vice president of the La Femia Space Commission and president of Thrusters Unlimited, Benjamín Najar Jr., said that proof of the above is the work of Mexicans in other nations, as well as their development in local companies.
Latin America has “tremendous” potential to enter and develop in the aerospace industry, countries like Argentina and Chile have made great advances and Mexico too, he noted during his participation in the panel “Technology for the new world” of the Forbes Economy and Business Forum 2024. Smart and Sustainable Future.
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He highlighted that Mexico is in 11th place in exports of the aeronautical sector, made up of around 350 companies, most of them Mexican, with a volume of 11 billion dollars in these services.
He explained that a very important factor that has triggered the growth of the industry is that activities have been regulated through the constitutional change of articles 28 and 73, which allow outer space activities to be regulated in Mexico.
“We have also taken on the task of working with universities to support students in whatever way we can, in their job aspirations in the aerospace sector,” he noted.
“In Mexico we have only been able to do it in the aeronautical sector, which is where we have extensive knowledge. “We always try to help young people find a place in the company network,” he added.
Benjamín Najar asserted that in nations where he has made work visits he has met Mexicans, such as Germany, where a Mexican appeared in a rocket factory.
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He said that at NASA, one of the directors of the Go Mars in Future Space project is Mexican, and that a director of the Canadian space agency is also Mexican.
“The presence of Mexicans around the world in the aerospace sector, that is what we see. There is only one thing that is the same point in all of them: when will there be room in Mexico for them to return me to my country?
Faced with this situation, he urged entrepreneurs to land fantasies, not to give up and to hold on until they achieve goals, because although the ideas may seem “crazy,” they are not.
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