As a college student, I attended a Summer School at the Mexican National Astronomical Observatory of San Pedro Mártir, and it was after this that I knew I wanted to become an astrophysicist. But I had started reading about space exploration and astronomy since childhood/adolescence. This is because although my parents and maternal grandmother were not hard scientists, they used to buy me wonderful magazines and books on these topics. I met the fist Mexican astronaut, Rodolfo Neri Vela, as a child at a book fair in Mexico City and in highschool and college, I picked the scientific route because I had an inclination for physics.