Bidspirit auction | Astronaut Lodewijk van den Berg

Astronaut Lodewijk van den Berg signed Columbia Young Crippen FDC. JUL 1980. Lodewijk van den Berg March 24, 1932 - October 16, 2022) was a Dutch-born American chemical engineer. He studied crystal growth and flew on a 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission as a payload specialist. Vân den Berg was born in the Netherlands and was an astronaut; he was a naturalized American and not a Dutch citizen when he flew on the Challenger.