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    Dirk Dries David Damiaan, Viscount Frimout (born 21 March 1941 in Poperinge, Belgium) is an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency. He flew aboard...
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    and an ESA astronaut. He is Belgium's second person in space (after Dirk Frimout). He was the first ESA astronaut to command a space mission when he served...
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    therefore indirectly included; a first and unique tribute to a support crew. Dirk Frimout is the first Belgian citizen to fly into space, and the only one to fly...
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    writer Dirk Dirksen (1937–2006), American music promoter Dirk Elbers (born 1959), German politician Dirk Fock (1858–1941), Dutch politician Dirk Frimout (born...
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    opportunity to become Belgium's third person in space, following astronauts Dirk Frimout and Frank De Winne. Shortly before Christmas in the next month, he was...
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  • Minister of Foreign Affairs Susanna Agnelli, former Belgian astronaut Dirk Frimout, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark Uffe Ellemann-Jensen,...
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    Dirk Frimout, joint 268th and first Belgian to go into space...
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    Aleksandr Kaleri Aleksandr Viktorenko Soyuz TM-14 17 March 1992 25  Belgium Dirk Frimout STS-45 24 March 1992 26  Italy Franco Malerba STS-46 31 July 1992 27...
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    Agency. Franz Viehböck, first Austrian in space. — Soyuz TM-13/12 (1991) Dirk Frimout, first Belgian in space. — STS-45 (1992) Frank De Winne, EAC — Soyuz...
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    molecular biologist Leopold Flam (1912–1995), historian, philosopher Dirk Frimout (born 1941), physicist, astronaut Derrick Gosselin (born 1956), engineer...
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