Mexico's new president is a scientist. What impact will that have on the country?

A lot of people are hoping that because she's a former scientist, she will support science, but also she has given all the signs that she will continue the projects of this administration.

It's Friday, June 7th, and Strapin,

because it's another beautiful science Friday.

I'm Cyfry producer Kathleen Davis.

Claudia Schein-Vampardo won Mexico's presidential election

this week, making her the first woman to lead the nation. She also used to be an environmental

engineer before she entered politics.

Mexico scientists are split on whether or not she'll make positive environmental changes,

considering her alignment with an administration that many call anti-science.

We'll talk about the nuances of that election in just a bit, but first, Ira talks to Maggie

Kurth about the biggest science stories of the week.

There was a big week of milestones for spaceflight.

We saw successful notable launches from both Boeing and SpaceX within a day of each other.

So what does this all say about this current moment? SpaceX within a day of each other.

So what does this all say about this current moment

and about the future of space travel?

Here to tell us about those launches

and other science news from this week

is Maggie Kurth, science writer, and a tutorial lead for a carbon. from this with this Boeing starliner launch because after years of delay the crew launched to the international space

station finally happened but not without a little drama right? Right I mean that's really been the theme of Space News this week is a little

positive and also things are kind of janky at the same time. So this was a flight that was originally supposed to happen back in 2017 and the two

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