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Dirk Frimout
Dirk Dries David Damiaan, Viscount Frimout is a Belgian astrophysicist for the European Space Agency. He flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-45 as a payload specialist, making him the first Belgian in space.
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science · Belgian astronaut (born 1941) · engineer · astronaut · astrophysicist · physicist · astronomer · also Dirk Frimout, Dirk Dries David Damiaan, Viscount Frimout, Frimout
Born 21 March 1941 · Q52494
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2022· 1 entry
RTBF: 30 ans déjà : Dirk Frimout devenait le premier Belge à aller dans l’espace
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Liège (2012).
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold presented by Baudouin I of Belgium (1993).
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1941· 1 entry
Born 1941-03-21.
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