« The Space Week
Walk of Space Noordwijk
07 oktober 2023 - TBD
Time:
TBD
Location:
Koningin Wilhelminaboulevard, Noordwijk
Organising party:
Municipality of Noordwijk, Noordwijk Marketing, ESA ESTEC, NL Space Campus, Space Expo
Since 2013, a Walk of Space is being created on Noordwijk’s Koningin Wilhelmina Boulevard. The first tile was one with Wubbo Ockels’s astronaut boot print. Since then, thirteen more tiles with hand- and footprints of famous astronauts have been laid. This year and in the coming years, new astronaut prints are set to follow.
The astronaut hand- and footprints that you can currently visit on the boulevard are:
- Wubbo Ockels
- André Kuipers
- Lodewijk van den Berg
- Ed Mitchell
- Frank de Winne
- Paolo Nespoli
- Alexander Gerst
- Claudie Haigneré
- Dirk Frimout
- Oleg Kononenko
- Samantha Cristoforetti
- Rusty Schweickart
- Walt Cunningham
- Matthias Maurer
