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Physicist and European Space Agency astronaut who became the first Dutchman to travel to space. He later joined the faculty of the Delft University of Technology.He was a Payload Specialist on STS-61-A, a Space Shuttle Challenger mission that was the first spaceflight to carry eight crew members.He flew with Bonnie Dunbar on STS-61-A.
BEFORE FAMEHe earned degrees in physics and mathematics from the University of Groningen.
PERSONAL LIFEHis marriage produced two children. He died of kidney cancer at the age of sixty-eight.
FUN FACTSAstronaut Wubbo Ockels were born on Thursday, birthstone is Aquamarine, the seaon was Spring in the Chinese year of Dog, it is 83 days until Wubbo Ockels next birthday.
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