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N? 35-98 - Paris, 5 October 1998
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European Space Agency (ESA) recruits new astronaut
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The Director General of ESA, Antonio Rodota, together with the Dutch
Minister of Economic Affairs, Annemarie Jorritsma, announced Europe's
newest astronaut, Andre Kuipers, today at Space Expo in Noordwijk, The
Netherlands.
Andre Kuipers (40), a medical doctor from Amsterdam, joins the other
astronauts that make up the European corps. He will begin training
around mid-1999 to qualify for future missions onboard the International
Space Station.
Kuipers is a specialist in space-related medical research. Since 1991,
he has participated in the preparation, data collection and ground
control of physiological experiments developed by ESA for flight on
board the US Space Shuttle, the Russian Mir space station and, in the
future, on the International Space Station.
He also coordinates the life-science experiments for ESA parabolic
flight campaigns and takes part as an experimenter, test subject and
flight surgeon.
Kuipers is the second Dutch astronaut. The first one, Wubbo Ockels, was
recruited in 1977 and flew on the Spacelab D-1 mission in 1985 with the
US Space Shuttle.
ESA is in the process of creating one single European astronaut corps by
merging existing national astronaut programmes with the ESA programme.
A number of new astronauts are also being selected. The objective is to
have a total of 16 astronauts by mid-2000 in order to be able to meet
the demand for European astronauts foreseen in the coming years as the
International Space Station is being built and research onboard gest
underway. Presently, the European corps comprises 12 astronauts:
Jean-Francois Clervoy, Leopold Eyharts, Jean-Pierre Haignere (France);
Thomas Reiter, Hans Schlegel, Gerhard Thiele (Germany); Umberto Guidoni,
Paolo Nespoli, Roberto Vittori (Italy); Pedro Duque (Spain); Christer
Fuglesang (Sweden); and Claude Nicollier (Switzerland). Their home base
is the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.
For further information, see the following Web pages: - European
Astronaut Centre: http://www.estec.esa.int/spaceflight/astronaut -
International Space Station:
http://www.estec.esa.int/spaceflight/index.htm - ESA in general:
http://www.esa.int
Andre KUIPERS
ESA ASTRONAUT
BIRTHPLACE AND DATE: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 5 October 1958.
EDUCATION: Andre Kuipers graduated from van der Waals Lyceum, Amsterdam,
in 1977 and received a Medical Doctor degree from the University of
Amsterdam in 1987.
FAMILY: Two daughters.
RECREATIONAL INTERESTS: Scuba-diving, skiing, flying, history,
travelling.
EXPERIENCE: During his medical studies, Andre Kuipers worked in the
Vestibular department of the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, where he was involved in research on the equilibrium
system.
In 1987 and 1988, as an officer of the Royal Netherlands Airforce
Medical Corps, he studied accidents and near-accidents caused by spatial
disorientation of pilots of high-performance aircraft.
In 1989 and 1990, he worked for the Research and Development department
of the Netherlands Aerospace Medical Centre in Soesterberg. He was
involved in research on the Space Adaptation Syndrome, contact lenses
for pilots, vestibular apparatus, blood pressure and cerebral blood
flow. In addition, he performed medical examinations of pilots and
medical monitoring of human centrifuge training, and lectured pilots.
Since 1991, Kuipers has been involved in the preparation, coordination,
baseline data collection and ground control of physiological experiments
developed by the European Space Agency for space missions. In
particular he was a project scientist for the Anthrorack, a human
physiology facility that flew on the D-2 Spacelab mission in 1993, and
for two payloads, for lung and bone physiology, that flew on board the
Mir space station during the half-year Euromir 95 mission. He was then
involved in the development of the Torque Velocity Dynamometer that flew
on the LMS Spacelab mission in 1996.
He is coordinating the life science experiments for the ESA parabolic
flight campaigns and participates in flights as an experiment operator,
test subject and flight surgeon.
CURRENT SITUATION: Andre Kuipers is a project scientist for several ESA
human physiology payloads, both in the development and in the
operational phase. He is coordinating the scientific input for the
development of the Muscle Atrophy Research and Exercise System and the
Percutaneous Electrical Muscle Stimulator, both to be flown on the
International Space Station. He is also coordinating experiments for the
Advanced Respiratory Monitoring System, which will fly in 2000 on the US
Space Shuttle mission STS-107.
October 1998
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