Sanchez touts Spanish aerospace prowess on visit to NASA lab
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Los Angeles, Jul 22 (EFE).- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez emphasized his country’s strength in aerospace technology during a visit Thursday to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena.
Sanchez, who arrived in the United States late Tuesday on a trip with a pronounced emphasis on business and the economy, was accompanied to the JPL facility by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Spain’s minister of industry, tourism and trade, Reyes Maroto.
Deputy Director Larry James led the visitors on a tour that included a stop in the JPL control room, the nerve center of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission.