STS-45
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STS-45 was a 1992 NASA Space Shuttle mission using the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Its almost nine-day scientific mission was with a non-deployable payload of instruments. It was the 46th Space Shuttle mi
Components of the ATLAS-1 laboratory in the payload bay of Atlantis
Standing: Lichtenberg, Foale, Leestma, Sullivan and Frimout Seated: Duffy and BoldenSpace Shuttle program← STS-42 (45)STS-49 (47) →
STS132 Atlantis undocking 2
Dirk Frimout
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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 Bel
STS-45
…the unmentioned names of the alternate mission specialists, who are therefore indirectly included; a first and unique tribute to a support crew. Dirk Frimout is the first Belgian citizen to fly into space, and the only one to fly on a Space Shuttle (the other is Frank De Winne (who flies to the International…
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