title: Wubbo Ockels
NASA Astronaut Group 9
37022 Robertovittori
Interbol
State Space Agency of Ukraine
Austrian Space Agency
Ghana Space Science and Technology Centre
Roberto Vittori
Ampyx Power
Superbus (transport)
sentences: Wubbo Johannes Ockels (28 March 1946 – 18 May 2014) was a Dutch physicist and an astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA).
 In 1985 he participated in a flight on the space shuttle Challenger, STS-61-A, making him the first Dutch citizen in space.
 After his astronaut career, Ockels was professor of "Aerospace for Sustainable Engineering and Technology" at the Delft University of Technology.
NASA Astronaut Group 9 was announced on May 29, 1980, and completed their training by 1981.
 This group, composed of 19 candidates, was selected to supplement the 35 astronauts that had been selected in 1978, and marked the first time that non-Americans were trained as mission specialists with the selections of ESA astronauts Claude Nicollier and Wubbo Ockels.
 In keeping with the previous group, astronaut candidates were divided into pilots and mission specialists, with eight pilots, eleven mission specialists, and two international mission specialists within the group.
37022 Robertovittori (2000 UT1) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 22, 2000 by F. Manca and Graziano Ventre at Sormano.
 It is named after Roberto Vittori, an Italian astronaut who flew on multiple missions to the International Space Station.
Interbol (Russian: Интербол ) is an international space project under the leadership of the Russian Space Agency and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
 The list of participants includes the Institute of Atmospheric Research of the Czech Academy of Sciences, NASA, European Space Agency, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency.
 The goal of the project is to study the correlations between plasma processes in the tail of the magnetosphere and in the Van Allen radiation belt (auroral particles acceleration region) with a high time-space resolution.
 Two space probes have been launched into high-altitude elliptical orbits:
The State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU; Ukrainian: Державне космічне агентство України , "Derzhavne kosmichne ahentstvo Ukrayiny", ДКАУ, "DKAU") is the Ukrainian government agency responsible for space policy and programs.
 Along with the Ukrainian Defense Industry and the Antonov Aeronautical Scientific-Technical Complex, it is a major state complex of the national defense industry of Ukraine.
 The State Space Agency of Ukraine does not specialize in manned astronautical programs.
 It is the second of two direct Soviet space program descendants.
 The agency does not have its own spaceport and is often dependent on the resources of the Russian Federal Space Agency (the primary inheritor of the Soviet space program).
The Austrian Space Agency, since 2005 officially Aeronautics and Space Agency (German: Agentur für Luft- und Raumfahrt) is an organization whose purpose is to coordinate Austrian space exploration-related activities, both national programs and European Space Agency related programs.
 It was established in 1972 in Vienna.
 In 1987, Austria became a member state of the European Space Agency.
The Ghana Space Science and Technology Centre (GSSTC) was opened officially on 2 May 2012 as Ghana’s first space science, space exploration, astronomy and technology space agency.
 GSSTC and Ghana Space Agency (GhSA) aims to become an arena of excellence in space science, space exploration and space technology through teaching, learning, private spaceflight and space research commercialisation.
 The centre and space agency will also allow scientists and astronauts to conduct research into natural resource management, weather forecasting, agriculture and national security.
Roberto Vittori (born 15 October 1964 in Viterbo) is an Italian air force officer and an ESA astronaut.
 After graduating from the Italian Accademia Aeronautica in 1989, Vittori flew in the Italian Air Force.
 He then trained as a test pilot in the United States.
Ampyx Power is an airborne wind energy company founded in 2008 by Bas Lansdorp and Richard Ruiterkamp.
 It was created after Lansdorp dropped his five-year-long studies of wind energy at Delft University of Technology to found Ampyx Power.
 In 2011, Lansdorp sold a majority of his Ampyx Power shares to fund his new project, Mars One.
 Wubbo Ockels' interest in energy began when he let a kite line slip and it burned his hand.
 He became interested and started to study and research how this could be turned into electricity.
 At Delft University, he formed a team with Bas Lansdorp that worked on developing kites that could retrieve energy from the sky.
 Richard Ruiterkamp became the team leader and he created a fixed wing aircraft that allowed greater controllability and allowing the generation of more energy.
 In 2008 he founded the company with Bas Lansdorp.
 Lansdorp worked on the business aspect, and Ruiterkamp was head of the science division.
 Currently, Ampyx Power has a team of 40 engineers.
 Their current prototype is the AP3 Ampyx Power Airborne Wind Energy System (AWES).
 The system is a tethered aircraft that converts wind into electric energy.
 The aircraft is tethered to an on the ground generator.
 When the aircraft moves and flies, it reels the tether and powers the generator.
 The plane is then reeled in through the tether and then re-released into the air.
The Superbus is a prototype high speed electric coach-like limo car that is capable of carrying 23 passengers at speeds of up to 250 km/h on specially designed segregated highway lanes.
 The Superbus project, led by Dutch astronaut professor Wubbo Ockels of the Delft University of Technology until his death in 2014 envisages a comfortable, demand-dependent door-to-door transportation rivaling the car and the train.
 The project, which encompass infrastructure, logistics, safety, reliability and economic viability, in addition to the design of the vehicle itself, has received funding of €7 million, largely provided by the Dutch State.

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 Wubbo Johannes Ockels (28 March 1946 – 18 May 2014) was a Dutch physicist and an astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA).
 In 1985 he participated in a flight on the space shuttle Challenger, STS-61-A, making him the first Dutch citizen in space.
 After his astronaut career, Ockels was professor of "Aerospace for Sustainable Engineering and Technology" at the Delft University of Technology. 

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 NASA Astronaut Group 9 was announced on May 29, 1980, and completed their training by 1981.
 This group, composed of 19 candidates, was selected to supplement the 35 astronauts that had been selected in 1978, and marked the first time that non-Americans were trained as mission specialists with the selections of ESA astronauts Claude Nicollier and Wubbo Ockels.
 In keeping with the previous group, astronaut candidates were divided into pilots and mission specialists, with eight pilots, eleven mission specialists, and two international mission specialists within the group. 

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 37022 Robertovittori (2000 UT1) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 22, 2000 by F. Manca and Graziano Ventre at Sormano.
 It is named after Roberto Vittori, an Italian astronaut who flew on multiple missions to the International Space Station. 

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 Interbol (Russian: Интербол ) is an international space project under the leadership of the Russian Space Agency and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
 The list of participants includes the Institute of Atmospheric Research of the Czech Academy of Sciences, NASA, European Space Agency, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency.
 The goal of the project is to study the correlations between plasma processes in the tail of the magnetosphere and in the Van Allen radiation belt (auroral particles acceleration region) with a high time-space resolution.
 Two space probes have been launched into high-altitude elliptical orbits: 

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 The Ghana Space Science and Technology Centre (GSSTC) was opened officially on 2 May 2012 as Ghana’s first space science, space exploration, astronomy and technology space agency.
 GSSTC and Ghana Space Agency (GhSA) aims to become an arena of excellence in space science, space exploration and space technology through teaching, learning, private spaceflight and space research commercialisation.
 The centre and space agency will also allow scientists and astronauts to conduct research into natural resource management, weather forecasting, agriculture and national security. 

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 Roberto Vittori (born 15 October 1964 in Viterbo) is an Italian air force officer and an ESA astronaut.
 After graduating from the Italian Accademia Aeronautica in 1989, Vittori flew in the Italian Air Force.
 He then trained as a test pilot in the United States. 

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 Ampyx Power is an airborne wind energy company founded in 2008 by Bas Lansdorp and Richard Ruiterkamp.
 It was created after Lansdorp dropped his five-year-long studies of wind energy at Delft University of Technology to found Ampyx Power.
 In 2011, Lansdorp sold a majority of his Ampyx Power shares to fund his new project, Mars One.
 Wubbo Ockels' interest in energy began when he let a kite line slip and it burned his hand.
 He became interested and started to study and research how this could be turned into electricity.
 At Delft University, he formed a team with Bas Lansdorp that worked on developing kites that could retrieve energy from the sky.
 Richard Ruiterkamp became the team leader and he created a fixed wing aircraft that allowed greater controllability and allowing the generation of more energy.
 In 2008 he founded the company with Bas Lansdorp.
 Lansdorp worked on the business aspect, and Ruiterkamp was head of the science division.
 Currently, Ampyx Power has a team of 40 engineers.
 Their current prototype is the AP3 Ampyx Power Airborne Wind Energy System (AWES).
 The system is a tethered aircraft that converts wind into electric energy.
 The aircraft is tethered to an on the ground generator.
 When the aircraft moves and flies, it reels the tether and powers the generator.
 The plane is then reeled in through the tether and then re-released into the air. 

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 The Superbus is a prototype high speed electric coach-like limo car that is capable of carrying 23 passengers at speeds of up to 250 km/h on specially designed segregated highway lanes.
 The Superbus project, led by Dutch astronaut professor Wubbo Ockels of the Delft University of Technology until his death in 2014 envisages a comfortable, demand-dependent door-to-door transportation rivaling the car and the train.
 The project, which encompass infrastructure, logistics, safety, reliability and economic viability, in addition to the design of the vehicle itself, has received funding of €7 million, largely provided by the Dutch State. 

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Answer: yes