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Wubbo Ockels
NASA portrait of Ockels in 1981.
Born
(1946-03-28)28 March 1946
Almelo, Netherlands
Died
18 May 2014(2014-05-18) (aged 68)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nationality
Dutch
Occupation
Physicist
Space career
ESA astronaut
Time in space
7d 00h 44m
Selection
1978 ESA Group
Missions
STS-61-A
Mission insignia
Wubbo Johannes Ockels (28 March 1946 – 18 May 2014) was a Dutch physicist and astronaut with the European Space Agency who, in 1985, became the first Dutch citizen in space when he flew on STS-61-A as a payload specialist. He later became professor of aerospace engineering at Delft University of Technology.
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airborne wind energy research group established by the former astronaut WubboOckels. The company is located in Delft, Netherlands, and currently comprises...
Representatives. She was sister of WubboOckels. Ockels died in Zoutkamp on 14 May 2016, aged 72. "M.J. (Marjet) Ockels" (in Dutch). Parlement.com. Retrieved...
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ice in the Shackleton Crater. She retired as an astronaut after saving WubboOckels during a solar storm which made it likely for her to develop cancer due...
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nation's highways; this project was led by Dutch astronaut professor WubboOckels of the Delft University of Technology. Members of both Delft Student...
(mission specialists), and Reinhard Furrer, Ernst Messerschmid, and WubboOckels (payload specialists). The seven-day mission was the first with eight...
expert in dialectology, member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Science WubboOckels, first Dutch astronaut, received a PhD degree in physics and mathematics...
targets". EURACTIV.com. 26 September 2007. "WubboOckels". www.ockels.nl. The laddermill website of WubboOckels. Website of the Delft University of Technology...
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(1985), with Reinhard Furrer and Ernst Messerschmid ( with Netherlands' WubboOckels on STS-61-A) D2 (1993), with Hans Schlegel and Ulrich Walter Mir 92/92E...
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