One habitat for mankind may not be enough: André Kuipers at TEDxZwolle

André Kuipers was born in Amsterdam in 1958. In 1987, he graduated as a medical doctor. His subsequent research for the Royal Netherlands Air Force included studies into space sickness and the sense of equilibrium.

André Kuipers is the first Dutchman with two space missions to his name. His second mission is the longest spaceflight in European history. In total, the ESA astronaut
spent 204 days in space: 11 days during mission DELTA in 2004 and 193 days during mission PromISSe. After years of training in Houston, Moscow, Cologne, Montreal and Tokyo, a Russian Soyuz spaceship launched André and two crew members from Russia
and America on December 21, 2011. Two days later, he arrived at the International Space Station to live and work for six months. In addition to his duties as a medical doctor, scientist and flight engineer, he also acted as handyman and ambassador for several charities. On July 1, 2012, André returned to Earth and landed in his space capsule in the Kazakh steppe. http://www.tedxzwolle.nl

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