Kuipers

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Space flights:

Ord. num.	Startup spacecraft	Date and time of launch (UT)	Status while launch	Spacecraft of landing	Date and time of landing (UT)	Duration
1	Soyuz TMA-4	19 Apr 2004 03h 18m 57s	FE1	Soyuz TMA-3	30 Apr 2004 00h 11m 15s	10d.20h.52m.18s.
2	Soyuz TMA-03M	21 Dec 2011 13h 16m	FE/Exp-30	Soyuz TMA-03M	01 July 2012 08h 14m	192d 18h 58m
Total duration:						203d 15h 50m 18s

Promisse path - Credit: ESA

Doctorate of medicine from the University of Amsterdam, 1987; since 1991 until his selection for ESA-Astronaut Program he was project researcher of human medicine at ESA; hobbies; Scuba diving, skiing, flying, history, traveling.
Candidate payload specialist for Neurolab / STS-90, September 1995; nominated by ESA as a payload specialist for STS-107, but due to (possible political) unknown reasons, Ilan Ramon was selected by NASA, May 1997; double for Pedro Duque (Soyuz TMA-3).
Since October 01, 2004 part-time professor spaceflight and medical science at the Free University of Amsterdam; has begun ISS Expedition crew training as a back-up crewmember to Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk for the first Canadian ISS increment (second part of 2005); back-up for Frank De Winne in the double crew of ISS Expedition 20/21 (Soyuz TMA-15) starting in 2007; assigned as a flight engineer to ISS Expedition 30/31 (Soyuz TMA-03M) on August 5, 2009.

Ref.: #16, #21, #404 - update: 20.10.17