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    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...
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  • Ockels may refer to: Marjet Ockels (1943–2016), Dutch politician Wubbo Ockels (1946–2014), Dutch physicist 9496 Ockels, asteroid This disambiguation page...
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    specialists with the selections of ESA astronauts Claude Nicollier and Wubbo Ockels. In keeping with the previous group, astronaut candidates were divided...
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    Reinhard Furrer of West Germany, along with first Dutch astronaut Wubbo J. Ockels of the European Space Agency (ESA), all payload specialists. The primary...
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  • Representatives. She was sister of Wubbo Ockels. Ockels died in Zoutkamp on 14 May 2016, aged 72. "M.J. (Marjet) Ockels" (in Dutch). Parlement.com. Retrieved...
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    passing cars' headlamps. Windvogel is a tribute to the Dutch astronaut Wubbo Ockels. Ockels had the dream to realise smart kites which generate power by having...
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  • Dutch citizen to have been to space is Wubbo Ockels. He was born on 28 March 1946 in Almelo, Overijssel. Ockels rocketed towards space aboard Space Shuttle...
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    Gardner (ascent CAPCOM) Chuck Lewis (Marshall CAPCOM) Bryan D. O'Connor Wubbo Ockels STS-9's six-member crew, the largest of any human space mission at the...
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    Benders-Letteboer (1909–1980) an active member of the Dutch Resistance Wubbo Ockels (1946–2014) a physicist and astronaut of the European Space Agency Herman...
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  • 1 (ESA) Ulf Merbold (West Germany), Claude Nicollier (Switzerland), Wubbo Ockels (Netherlands), Franco Malerba (Italy) August – USAF Manned Spaceflight...
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