Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

UNAM student designs scale model of helicopter to fly to Mars

Maria Regina Apodaca Moreno, a graduate student in physics from the Faculty of Sciences (FC, for its acronym in Spanish), stayed at NASA's Ames Research Center, which allowed her to develop a model for Scale helicopter that will fly on Mars.

"The experience helped me develop my work, which will be about a helicopter that NASA will fly on Mars in the mission planned for 2020," the student said in a statement from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, for its acronym in Spanish).

The 22-year-old student joined the program to become a NASA intern, after . . .

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