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All dates are in NL format, this is clearly a translated article, which is fine, but someone needs to fix all the dates from '1 january 1990' to 'january 1, 1990'

Dates in both formats are acceptable, as long as the format is used consistently throughout the article. See also: Wikipedia:Date formattings. – Editør (talk) 13:59, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That was a very polite answer, to be sure! The person suggesting the change doesn’t seem to know that only in his/her one and only country, dates are written with the name of the month first up...

To be specific, that’s the pink area in this picture. --Geke (talk) 09:17, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Third ? second ?[edit]

Lodewijk van den Berg has been a US citizen since 1975, he flew as a US citizen and Kuipers is therefore the second Dutch in space and not third ? Hektor 17:55, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Who are the other two Dutch speakers? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GramlerGrindstone (talk • contribs) 23:18, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Probably a belgian and a afrikaner. 72.228.189.184 (talk) 11:31, 31 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I’m not sure including that kind of info is worth while – I suggest taking it out, because it really sounds like somebody wants to pump up his Dutch ego by also counting in Dutch-speaking astronauts. I’m Dutch, by the way :)

But hey, I’ve looked around anyway and found that there have been two Belgian astronauts (Dirk Frimout and Frank De Winne) with names suggesting a Dutch-speaking background, so I guess the author of the phrase "fifth Dutch-speaking astronaut" is referring to them.

There have been two South-African astronauts, Mike Melvill and Mark Shuttleworth, but I don’t know their language, and in fact, Afrikaans is not Dutch.

The question about 2nd or 3d Dutch astronaut: I think that is expressed accurately here and furthermore explained by the linked article.--Geke (talk) 09:11, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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