Wubbo Ockels
The second Dutch-born astronaut and first Dutch citizen to have been to space is Wubbo Ockels. He was born March 28, 1946 in Almelo, Overijssel. Ockels rocketed towards space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on October 30, 1985 – just over half a year after Lodewijk van den Berg – as a Payload Specialist of mission STS-61A.
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