Following the announcement of André Kuiper's Soyuz taxi flight to the International Space Station scheduled for November 2003.
In the scale Columbus model at the ISS User Information Centre, from left to right, Director of ESTEC, Mr G. Winters, Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and Science, Mrs M. van der Hoeven, Former ESA astronaut and first Dutchman in space, Wubbo Ockels, Dutch Secretary of State Mr J. Wijn, ESA astronaut André Kuipers.