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Walk of Space Noordwijk

07 oktober 2023 - TBD
Walk of Space Noordwijk
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


  • Gemeente Noordwijk
  • Space Expo Noordwijk
  • European Space Agency - ESA
  • Noordwijk Marketing

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