If the flight is only partly successful, it still promises to be the "spark that ignites a thriving industry, " former astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, president of a trade group pushing such projects, told reporters said Thursday.
In addition to more established groups like the Leadership Summit (led by Frank Carbajal), and Hispanic-Net (led by MichaelLopez and Margarita Quihuis), we now have emerging groups like LAM (Giovanni Dubois), Silicon Valley Latino (Alex Ontivero, Jose Posadas, and Sergio Domeyko), and the Latino Startup Alliance (Jesse Martinez).