. "Francisco Javier Mendieta"@en . "Director of theMexican Space Agency" . "Mexican academic" . "1955-11-28Z"^^ . "Mendieta Jim\u00E9nez, Francisco Javier"@en . "Mendieta, Francisco Javier"@en . . "Francisco Javier Mendieta Jim\u00E9nez (born 28 November 1955 in San Luis Potos\u00ED) is a Mexican telecommunications engineer and academic who chaired the Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education (Cicese) and serves, by presidential appointment, as the founding director-general of the Mexican Space Agency.Mendieta graduated with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and earned both a master\u2019s degree and a doctorate in Telecommunications at the \u00C9cole Nationale Sup\u00E9rieure des T\u00E9l\u00E9communications (also known as T\u00E9l\u00E9com ParisTech) in Paris, France.He has conducted experiments for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States and, for the STS-61-B Atlantis mission, he was designated as an eventual substitute of Rodolfo Neri Vela, the reserve payload specialist who became the first Mexican national in space."@en . . . "1955Z"^^ .