André Kuipers

hi we are going to tell you about André Kuipers we first start with his personal information and hte i am going to tell you about his life, work, and school.
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Personal information.
Andre Kuipers was born on 5 October 1958 in Amsterdam, he has two daughters.His hobbies are scuba diving, hiking, travelling, and history.

About his life, work, and school.

In 1977 André Kuipers graduated from his atheneum on the Van der Waal Lyceum he received a medical doctor degree in 1987 that was in amsterdam.
After it he started his medical study in that time he also worked in a medical centre in Amsterdam.

he did also start at the Royal Netherlands Air Force Medical Corps after 2 years(1987 till 1988 he was made Officer of the Royal Netherlands Air Force Medical Corps. but that wasn't enough for him.
so he wanted to do more like: he studied accidents of pilots in their aircrafts he was very busy with it buth he wanted more and wanted to become more important so he started more.

In 1989 till 1990 he worked for the Research department of the Netherlands Aerospace Medical Centre He was involved in the research of the healthiness of the pilots like lenses for pilots and medical experiments buth he did more he did also gave lessons to pilots on the mental aspects of flying.

Since 1991 he had been involved in the preparation of the coordination of the aircrafts he held on with it till 1999.

He startert something new for him in 1999 he joined the European Astronaut Corps of the European Space agency he was picked to do operations of the International Space Station buth he first had to do a training in 2002 he completed the Training Programme which is situated (placed) at EAC in Cologne.
Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre near Moscow their was a training centre their training included lessons in science and technology and the system on board they did it in the International Space Station,they also did spacewalk training on that trainign center where André Kuipers was.

In December 2002 André Kuipers was assigned as a Flight Engineer for a flight to International Space Station (ISS).The delta mission was sponsored by the Dutch government; it took place from 19 till 30 April 2004.
The flight had three missions: The first one was the trade of a spacecraft which serves as lifeboat for six months.
Second exchange of the new original crew was brought up to the Station in exchange for the old crew who returned him to Earth.
Third he performed 21 experiments in biology technology and education.that was not the only things he did in 2002 he was also the backup of pedro duque for a mission wich took place in October 2003

this is André Kuipers.



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i have got the most of http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESAMWUZUMOC_astronauts_0.html
and some about this next two
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/andré_Kuipers
http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/kuipers.html