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18th May 2014, 14:12
Wubbo Ockels deceased.
http://images0.tcdn.nl/incoming/article22637905.ece/BINARY/d/Ockels.jpg
AMSTERDAM -
The first Dutch astronaut Dr. Ockels died this morning to the effects of renal cell cancer, at age 68.
Ockels was physicist, astronaut, pilot and professor. He became the first Dutchman in 1985, a space flight of a week with the space shuttle Challenger.
Ockels was already hospitalized the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in Amsterdam a few days ago. He was diagnosed with an advanced kidney tumor in 2008 by coincidence. The tumor was successfully removed, but in 2013, renal cell cancer was found again.
Ockels still worked at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft.
translated by Google, slightly corrected.
http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/22637878/__Wubbo_Ockels_overleden__.html
He visited our island last year with his ship Ecolution ...
http://www.ecolutions.nl/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_9315.jpg
an ultra modern ship with all kinds of technological gadgets:
- technology (http://www.ecolutions.nl/en/technology)
- energy (http://www.ecolutions.nl/en/technology/energy)
He visited to advice our local community on improving development toward green energy. I briefly spoke with him just before he had to leave
to the Netherlands again to get treatment for his cancer.
I wanted to ask him more about his TED presentation in Amsterdam, November 2009
eaV-GeAPSlE
Prof. dr. Wubbo J. Ockels is a Dutch physicist, and also the Netherlands original astronaut. He is a Professor of Aerospace Sustainable Engineering and Technology at the University of Delft, and tries to stimulate a mentality change among Dutch citizens.
In his mind-bending TEDxAmsterdam talk, Ockels explains how time is created by human beings, as a way our brains can make sense of gravity. The speed of light is constant, because it is made by us: its the clock by which we have calibrated our existence. Based on this premise, Ockels proposes a new way to explore life in our galaxy.
When he visited this was THE opportunity to do maybe even a kind of interview.
But this all failed because of his unfortunate, sudden and far too soon death.
Why do all these people (like Brian o 'Leary) die far too young ?
http://images0.tcdn.nl/incoming/article22637905.ece/BINARY/d/Ockels.jpg
AMSTERDAM -
The first Dutch astronaut Dr. Ockels died this morning to the effects of renal cell cancer, at age 68.
Ockels was physicist, astronaut, pilot and professor. He became the first Dutchman in 1985, a space flight of a week with the space shuttle Challenger.
Ockels was already hospitalized the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in Amsterdam a few days ago. He was diagnosed with an advanced kidney tumor in 2008 by coincidence. The tumor was successfully removed, but in 2013, renal cell cancer was found again.
Ockels still worked at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft.
translated by Google, slightly corrected.
http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/22637878/__Wubbo_Ockels_overleden__.html
He visited our island last year with his ship Ecolution ...
http://www.ecolutions.nl/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_9315.jpg
an ultra modern ship with all kinds of technological gadgets:
- technology (http://www.ecolutions.nl/en/technology)
- energy (http://www.ecolutions.nl/en/technology/energy)
He visited to advice our local community on improving development toward green energy. I briefly spoke with him just before he had to leave
to the Netherlands again to get treatment for his cancer.
I wanted to ask him more about his TED presentation in Amsterdam, November 2009
eaV-GeAPSlE
Prof. dr. Wubbo J. Ockels is a Dutch physicist, and also the Netherlands original astronaut. He is a Professor of Aerospace Sustainable Engineering and Technology at the University of Delft, and tries to stimulate a mentality change among Dutch citizens.
In his mind-bending TEDxAmsterdam talk, Ockels explains how time is created by human beings, as a way our brains can make sense of gravity. The speed of light is constant, because it is made by us: its the clock by which we have calibrated our existence. Based on this premise, Ockels proposes a new way to explore life in our galaxy.
When he visited this was THE opportunity to do maybe even a kind of interview.
But this all failed because of his unfortunate, sudden and far too soon death.
Why do all these people (like Brian o 'Leary) die far too young ?