Human Resources as a Key Factor to Define the Success of a New Space Agency: The Mexican Space Agency Example

Paper number

IAC-16,E5,IP,1,x35348

Coauthor

Mrs. Victoria Valle Pinto, Agencia Espacial Mexicana (AEM), Mexico

Coauthor

Mr. David Jiménez Monroy, Agencia Espacial Mexicana (AEM), Mexico

Year

2016

Abstract

The Mexican Space Agency has been working to develop a national strategy to build the national capacities and the space infrastructure to ensure a proper accomplish of the responsibilities defined on the Law that establish the AEM. 

However the challenge to set up a new space agency involved several aspects, but without any doubt the definition and selection of the personal produce a high impact on the results.

This papers presents a reflexion about the challenges that the Mexican Space Agency found on the way to have a fully functional federal government entity. The procedure to define profiles and select personal capable to deal with the effort to build a space program and implement has produced a lot of lessons learned.

Abstract document

IAC-16,E5,IP,1,x35348.brief.pdf

Manuscript document

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