Description
Lodewijk van den Berg is a Dutch American chemical engineer, specializing in crystal growth, who flew on a 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission as a Payload Specialist.
He was the first Dutch-born astronaut, a fact that is often ignored in the Netherlands because he was a naturalized American and no longer a Dutch citizen at the time of flight. He is married and has two children. As of 2014, he resides in Florida and works as a chief scientist at the Constellation Technology Corporation.
Born
March 24th, 1932 in Terneuzen / Died: Oct 16th, 2022
Last Changes
2023/03/08
The celebrity has been marked as passed away
2015/05/15
New Scanned Autograph (TTM/Probably Authentic)
2015/05/15
New Scanned Autograph (TTM/Probably Authentic)