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Belgian Astronaut Visited by Prime Minister During Training

Belgian Commitment to Partnership Supports a New Frontier of Europe-US Space Research

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Tom Patton
Dec 13, 2023
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Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (pictured, left) recently travelled to Houston, TX, to meet Raphaël Liégeois (right), the Belgian career astronaut selected as part of the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut class of 2022. De Croo's visit coincides with the ESA cohort's familiarization trip to NASA's Johnson Space Center, which is the precurso…

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