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Luxembourg. Raphaël Liégeois, the space envoy of Belgium and the Grand Duchy

Luxembourg. Raphaël Liégeois, the space envoy of Belgium and the Grand Duchy

After Matthias Maurer from Saarland, a former student of the European School of Materials Engineering in Nancy, the Greater Region will have another space envoy. Between Cologne and Houston, we met Belgian-Luxembourger Raphaël Liégeois, who will join the International Space Station in 2026.
"For now, I tell my three- and four-year-old daughters that my job is related to rockets," confides Raphaël Liégeois, guest of honor at the 20th anniversary of the Luxembourg Space Agency. Photo Paul-Marie Pernet
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