Gazet van Antwerpen: Een tripje Antwerpen - heelal met raket SpaceBuzz? Binnenkort kan het: “Magie van ruimte gebruiken om van aarde mooiere plek te maken”

Houston, we have an uitstaptip! In deze expo ga je precies op échte ruimtereis. Roxanne en Saïd testten het samen met hun kinderen uit!

“People have often called me crazy, but I have long since passed the stage where I care,” laughs Jürgen Ingels. The serial entrepreneur and investor - after his hours - set up the largest space exhibition in Europe and poured the most remarkable astronaut stories into a book. According to Ingels, this passion for space travel is less far-fetched than it seems at first sight. President Kennedy said in 1962, 'We choose to go to the moon. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.' That is exactly what entrepreneurs do: choose the path with the greatest impact, even if it is often the most difficult one.”

Will we soon be living on Mars, do aliens really exist, and will we soon know how the cosmos was created? Kobe Ilsen found out during '#weetikveel on tour' at the Space Expo in Antwerp. Nancy Vermeulen, Katrien Kolenbergs and Stijn Meuris were the guests.

One of the twelve people who ever stood on the moon - and one of the four who are still alive - is in our country: the American Charlie Duke. Fifty years ago, it was he who flew to the moon with Apollo 16. An experience that still humbles him, he says.

Fifty years ago, American astronaut Charles Duke landed on the moon with the sixteenth Apollo mission. On Tuesday, he set foot in Antwerp as a special guest at Space, a real-life exhibition about space travel in Antwerp Expo. Organizer Jürgen Ingels showed him around. A unique moment, because of the twelve astronauts who once walked on the moon, only four are still alive.

At the moment you can visit 'SPACE - The Human Quest' at the Antwerp Expo, a unique exhibition for all ages that takes you into the adventurous world of space travel. On 17 May, space engineer Stijn Ilsen will be our guest at the expo to talk about his passion.

You can touch a lunar meteorite and sit in a perfectly simulated lunar lander. Just over 50 years after Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon, Space: The Human Quest in Antwerp looks back and ahead with fun items and stories, but especially with impressively recreated spacecraft.

Space fans can indulge themselves in Antwerp Expo until 30 June for the exhibition Space - The Human Quest. You will find life-size replicas of rockets, lunar landers and even the Space Shuttle. Most replicas were made by the American space agency NASA, but attention is also paid to Antwerp's contribution to space travel.

"I did the literaly craziest expo ever: Space - The Human Quest! An exhibition about space, with super cool facts, space shuttles that were almost real and also a simulator with which you can pilot a shuttle yourself!"

With the press of the launch button, the space exhibition 'Space: The Human Quest' was opened on Saturday in Antwerp Expo. The exhibition takes you on a space journey through the past, present and future of space travel - from the first man in space to a living unit on Mars.

As of today, Antwerp is home to the largest space expo in Europe. SPA©E – The Human Quest is an inspiring 2000 m² exhibition in Antwerp Expo, including historical objects, impressive replicas and an unprecedented view of the future of space travel.

The space exhibition "The human quest" has been opened in Antwerp Expo. The exhibition takes visitors on a unique journey through the past, present and future of space travel. In this way, the driving forces behind the exhibition hope to inspire and motivate children to opt for a scientific study direction.