The initial Dutch wanderer to lapse to space, André Kuipers is about to start 5 and a half months on house the International Space Station (ISS), a goal a European Space Agency named "PromISSe."
To that end, organizations in a Netherlands have  aimed during gripping Kuipers' PromISSe â€" from gripping time to gripping in hold to gripping good fed.
Kuipers  on Wednesday (Dec. 21) with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and NASA wanderer Don Pettit. The 3 are scheduled to arrive during a hire on Friday (Dec. 23), when they will join a outpost's 30th speed crew.
All 3 are spaceflight veterans. This is Kuipers' second time aboard a station. His initial mission, "Delta," in 2004 lasted only 11 days on a orbiting laboratory.
With most some-more time to cruise this time around, Dutch companies have contributed to creation Kuipers' stay some-more comfortable, while also giving his associate countrymen ways to commemorate their astronaut's journey. []
Keeping time
Despite a abruptness of his 2004 mission, Kuipers pronounced that he mislaid lane of time while in space. To assistance residence this, Dutch watchmaker Roland Oostwegel combined a "R.O.1 SPACE Special Edition," a watch that facilities a dial that displays goal elapsed time in days and weeks.
Kuipers launched with a special watch, that like all his and his crewmates' other apparatus had to be approved for use on a station. Fabricated out of carbon-fiber so it is lightweight, a watch also facilities a sub-dial arrangement for a time it takes for a space station to round a Earth, 91 mins and 59 seconds.
Other watches, like Omega's Speedmaster X-33 that is released to all hire organisation members, also arrangement goal elapsed time, yet as one of a several opposite digital displays.
To applaud Kuipers' goal and a initial Dutch watch in space, Roland Oostwegel also combined a singular book array of identical watches for those on a ground. Unlike Kuipers' "special edition" watch though, a immaculate steel, titanium, gold, and ceramic Earth-based versions barter out a goal elapsed time underline for a day and date calendar display.
The singular book R.O.1 SPACE watches start during €4900 (about $6,400).
Keeping in touch
Dutch space fans seeking a reduction costly  can spin to a internal postal company.
PostNL, in team-work with a European Space Agency, began this week charity a collection of space postcards and stamps honoring and display Kuipers in space.
The 34 opposite postcards underline , a wonders of a universe and space. The singular book stamps, that are offering in a "sheetlet" of three, uncover Kuipers during his 2004 goal and a Earth as noticed from a International Space Station.
Both a postcards and a stamps can be systematic online by PostNL and a online service, KaartWereld. The stamp sheetlet, that comes with 3 of a postcards, cost €4,95 (about $6.50).
Keeping good fed
Not all companies contributing to Kuipers' goal indispensable to rise new products â€" some were off a (food store) shelf.
Station organisation members are authorised to have a tiny supply of "bonus" dishes to rectify their unchanging menus. In Kuipers' case, he chose a ambience of home.
Each of his 9 reward food containers embody dual blocks of New Amsterdam, Dutch cheese constructed by Westland Kaasspecialiteiten. Sealed to stay uninformed for adult to a year, a 18 cheese squares were launched to a space hire on a Russian resupply craft.
A epicurean cheese, New Amsterdam is described to have a "buttery" aged Gouda flavor.
"It is a good respect to supply André Kuipers and his colleagues with a batch of Old Amsterdam in space," pronounced Henriëtte Westland, a mouthpiece for a Dutch cheese company. "We are always in hunt of new fans abroad, though creation it as distant as outdoor space we apparently never expected."
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