
Career record
Flights
1
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
7d
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0
Biography
Dr Wubbo Johannes Ockels (28 March 1946 – 18 May 2014) was a Dutch physicist and an astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA). In 1985 he participated in a flight on the Space Shuttle Challenger, STS-61-A, making him the first Dutch citizen in space.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-61-A — Payload Specialist · Success · October 30, 1985
Born 1946-03-28 · died 2014-05-18