Pablo de León

Pablo de León (born November 12 1964) is an Argentine space suit researcher, 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 is 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 a NASA-sponsored educational project in space suit systems.

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 in January 10, 2007.

External links

* [http://www.aate.org Argentine Association of Space Technology]
* [http://www.alespacio.org Latin American Space Association]
* [http://www.human.space.edu UND Space Suit Laboratory]