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La Opinión Hoy: Native American walks through space. At the age of 78, Polo Polo, Mexican actor and comedian, passed away

Nicole Aunapu Mann, Crew Member-5, NASA Astronaut, as she departs for Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy Space Center October 05, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida
Nicole Aunapu Mann, Crew Member-5, NASA Astronaut, as she departs for Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy Space Center October 05, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida

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Andrea Espinoza

The first Native American astronaut has successfully completed her first spacewalk. In October 2022, Nicole Aunapu Mann she became the first Native American woman to travel to space and conduct a mission on the International Space Station.

As reported by NASA, Mann ventured on a spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for more solar panels. Astronaut came out together with the Japanese Koichi Wakataloaded with a bag of equipment.

Their mission was to install brackets for the new solar panels which will launch this summer, as part of an ongoing effort by NASA to extend the space station’s power grid.

According to NASA data and numbers, this was the 258th spacewalk in support of space station assembly, upgrades, and maintenance, the first spacewalk of 2023 and the first spacewalk for both astronauts.

Polo Polo, Mexican actor and comedian

Leopoldo Roberto García Peláez Benítezbetter known as Polo Polopassed away on January 23, at the age of 78, due to vascular dementia that he suffered.

“It was a natural death, he passed away at 5:15 in the morning. I just stop breathing. He was always surrounded by the family, all the time my sister was watching over him, they fulfilled his wish, he never wanted to enter an institution and he wanted us to always take care of him and my sister did a great job taking care of him. I was there with him in his last breath, ”said his son paul garcia in the show program ‘Ventaneando’.

The comedian was born on March 9, 1944 in the City of León Guanajuato, his family was dedicated to the shoe industry, when he was young Polo Polo dedicated himself to this trade; However, upon discovering his artistic vocation, he began to perform on small stages for free.

Popo Polo achieved fame and public recognition thanks to his characteristic style of making black comedy and explicit languagecoming to be considered the precursor of stand up, since he told stories that were sometimes his own anecdotes in order to amuse the public.

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