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The Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft, in which Dutch ESA astronaut André Kuipers made his trip to the International Space Station in 2011 and returned in 2012, was presented on permanent public display today at Space Expo in Noordwijk. Director of Space Expo Rob Van Den Berg welcomed the Russian Ambassador to the Netherlands, the Mayor of Noordwijk, Head of ESA ESTEC and the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, along with cosmonauts Kuipers and Oleg Kononenko, to open this new exhibit.