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Space is so close: It took only eight minutes to get there and twenty to get back.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Wubbo Ockels

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Born: March 28, 1946
Died: May 18, 2014 (aged 68)
Bio: Wubbo Johannes Ockels was a Dutch physicist and an astronaut of the European Space Agency. In 1985 he participated in a flight on the space shuttle Challenger, STS-61-A, making him the first Dutch citizen in space.

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