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BRIEF HISTORY OF THE -On June 8, 2007, Ronnie Nader, MS, Prof. completes the Advanced Suborbital Astronaut Training Program on the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center on the Russian Federation, the program was designed to train a scientist to perform research during short term suborbital space flight. -As stated in his official communiqué of March 16 2007, the Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE) General Commander sent his delegate to Russia to officially recognize the first Ecuadorian astronaut and imposes the ASA/T astronaut wings to Nader. The Ecuadorian President congratulates him as well as the Russian Ambassador in Ecuador. -On August 29 2007, Nader publishes the Ecuadorian Civilian Space Program for the next 10 years and announces the creation of the Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency, during the announcement, the Russian Federation Ambassador in Ecuador Mr. Valentin Bogomazov and the General Commander of the Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE) stands besides him. -On October 12 the Ecuadorian government grants Nader the Medal “Example of Youth” -On November 1 2007, the Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency, EXA is created. It becomes the first ever space agency in the history of the country. -On the same month, EXA proposes the Project DAEDALUS to FAE, the making of the first microgravity plane in Latin America, using a device known as the PCMG-Mk1 developed entirely by EXA to compute in real time the exact parabola the plane must follow. FAE accepts to participate in the project with EXA as the project leader and commits the necessary resources, the project is deemed classified. -On November 19 2007 EXA join FAE in organizing the first local space camp in the city of Riobamba -On March of 2008, 6 medium-sized meteorites fall over Ecuadorian coastal territory, on a time span of 7 days in an area of 40 km of radius, EXA is called upon by the Ecuadorian government to investigate and its findings are deemed classified by the Air Force. -On April 10 2008, EXA and FAE jointly fly the EXA/FAE-01 microgravity research mission, the first mission for Project DAEDALUS, on board of a Mirage F1JE combat jet, the FAE pilot Xavier Coral and the EXA astronaut Ronnie Nader commanding the mission perform the flight with the PCMG-Mk1 in order to test the capabilities of the device which guides the plane to sustain 21 parabolas with 501 seconds of microgravity between +0.0006 and -0.0003G becoming the firsts to achieve such feat in the Latin American region. FAE grants the rank of Mission Commander to Nader. -On the same month EXA starts the Project POSEIDON, the biomedical research of children working in microgravity environments, for this purpose, it develops a variable gravity training program for children between 17 and 7 years old, 3 children are chosen to begin training. -Based on biometric readings of the previous missions EXA develops a Microgravity Induction Program, which is successfully tested during the next missions with subjects very sensitive to motion sickness, achieving the feat of zero motion sickness during all the missions in all the subjects -On May 6 2008 EXA and FAE jointly fly the EXA/FAE-02 microgravity research mission, second and final mission for Project DAEDALUS, on board of a Sabreliner T39 retrofitted with the PCMG-Mk2, with Col. Tirso Guerra and Col. Marcos Chiluiza as pilots and astronaut Nader as commander, the mission is successful in creating microgravity inside the plane for 18 parabolas and 165 seconds of microgravity between +0.0003 and -0.0001G giving to Ecuador the first and only microgravity plane of Latin America On May 19 2008 EXA helps UNESCO and FAE in organizing the Regional Space Camps 2008 -On June 19 2008 EXA and FAE jointly fly the EXA/FAE-06 microgravity research mission for the Project POSEIDON, that establishes the World Microgravity Record for the youngest human being, a 7-yeard old child, a delegate from Guinness World Records is present on the premises and declares the record at 11h47 am local time. -During the flight the children perform 3 different experiments and data is collected about their tasks, the children perform better than expected in microgravity, thanks to their training. -During this mission and for about a month earlier and before it, physiological and neurological data is collected from the children that is being currently being analyzed, this data registry collected from children being trained, working in microgravity and after the flight is now unique in the world. -On the same month EXA and FAE establish the PEVM/G - Ecuadorian Microgravity Flight Program, aimed to encourage the scientific interest in the young students and to continue the biomedical research in microgravity conditions -On September 29 2008 the general assembly of the International Astronautical Federation, meeting in Glasgow, UK during its 59th Congress adopts EXA as a new member with the status of Space Agency. -On October 22 EXA publishes de HIPERION report, a 1 year field study analyzing the latest 28 years of data from 10 satellites and more than 200 ground stations around the world and 2 ground stations on Ecuadorian territory, the study concludes that the ozone layer over the tropics is damaged and as result extreme levels of UV radiation are hitting Ecuadorian territory. -EXA also implements the Reactive Alert Network HIPERION, a real time alert system protecting more than 4 million people by giving them real time and accurate information about UV radiation levels. -On March 2009 EXA start the HERMES project, the first Internet-to-Orbit gateway and the most sensible ground station in the country, the station is named HERMES-A//MINOTAUR -On September 8 2009, the UN-OOSA invites the EXA to present Project HERMES into the Small Satellites for Sustainable Development Conference which officially becomes the first Internet-to-Orbit gateway, Cmdr Ronnie Nader is invited to the press conference on the National Academy of Science in Graz, Austria and trains representatives of 34 countries in the use of Project HERMES. On November 19 2009, EXA presents the A SATELLITE IN CLASSROOM program, based on the Delta operation mode of the HERMES-A/MINOTAUR gateway, the first program in the world that puts a real satellite in the classrooms of elementary schools, making possible for the first time that school children can download images from weather satellites in real time. The Academia Cotopaxi in Quito and the Ecomundo in Guayaquil becomes the first schools in the world to be able to work satellites in their classrooms.
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