Pablo de León
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Pablo Gabriel de León is an Argentine
aerospace engineer
, born in Cañuelas
, Argentina.
He was the team leader of the Ansari X Prize
Team based in Buenos Aires
and the payload manager of Project PADE, a group of seven Argentine experiments flown in the NASA
Space Shuttle Endeavour
in STS-108 mission, in December 2001.
De León is the founder of the Argentine Association of Space Technology and one of the co-founders of the Latin American Space Association.
He was the director of the Space Suit Laboratory at the Department of Space Studies, University of North Dakota
and as such he is in charge of several NASA-sponsored projects in space suit systems and human space flight.
In 2006 was the payload manager for the Pehuensat-1 satellite. An educational project managed by the Universidad Nacional del Comahue, in Neuquen, Argentina. The satellite was launched on board ISRO's PSLV rocket on January 10, 2007.
In 2008 Pablo de León presented the book "Historia de la Actividad Espacial en Argentina", volume 1, ISBN 978-987-05-4745-7 which accounts the history of the space activities in Argentina from 1930 to 1980. The same year he received the Orden de Merito Newberiano medal, given by the Instituto Nacional Newberiano, the aerospace history institute of Argentina.
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
aerospace engineer
Aerospace engineering
Aerospace engineering is the primary branch of engineering concerned with the design, construction and science of aircraft and spacecraft. It is divided into two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering...
, born in Cañuelas
Cañuelas Partido
Cañuelas Partido is a partido of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina.The provincial subdivision has a population of around 42,500 inhabitants in an area of 1,200 km² , and its capital city is Cañuelas, which has a population of around 31,000.-Sports:Cañuelas is home to Cañuelas FC, a...
, Argentina.
He was the team leader of the Ansari X Prize
Ansari X Prize
The Ansari X Prize was a space competition in which the X Prize Foundation offered a US$10,000,000 prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks...
Team based in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
and the payload manager of Project PADE, a group of seven Argentine experiments flown in the NASA
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Space Shuttle Endeavour is one of the retired orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the space agency of the United States. Endeavour was the fifth and final spaceworthy NASA space shuttle to be built, constructed as a replacement for Challenger...
in STS-108 mission, in December 2001.
De León is the founder of the Argentine Association of Space Technology and one of the co-founders of the Latin American Space Association.
He was the director of the Space Suit Laboratory at the Department of Space Studies, University of North Dakota
University of North Dakota
The University of North Dakota is a public university in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. Established by the Dakota Territorial Assembly in 1883, six years before the establishment of the state of North Dakota, UND is the oldest and largest university in the state and enrolls over 14,000 students. ...
and as such he is in charge of several NASA-sponsored projects in space suit systems and human space flight.
In 2006 was the payload manager for the Pehuensat-1 satellite. An educational project managed by the Universidad Nacional del Comahue, in Neuquen, Argentina. The satellite was launched on board ISRO's PSLV rocket on January 10, 2007.
In 2008 Pablo de León presented the book "Historia de la Actividad Espacial en Argentina", volume 1, ISBN 978-987-05-4745-7 which accounts the history of the space activities in Argentina from 1930 to 1980. The same year he received the Orden de Merito Newberiano medal, given by the Instituto Nacional Newberiano, the aerospace history institute of Argentina.