James A. Van Hoften (born 1944) is a former NASA astronaut and engineer who flew on two Space Shuttle missions, STS-41-C (1984) and STS-51-I (1985), serving as a mission specialist and performing satellite repair and spacewalk operations.
Gerard Kuiper (1905–1973) was a Dutch-born astronomer and pioneer of modern planetary science. He discovered several planetary satellites and atmospheres and proposed the Kuiper Belt, a distant region of icy bodies beyond Neptune believed to be the source of many comets.
Jessica Lange (born 1949) is an American actress who rose to prominence after early struggles, later winning two Academy Awards for Tootsie (1982) and Blue Sky (1994) and earning acclaim across film, television, and theater.
Willem Jacob Luyten (1899–1994) was a Dutch American astronomer at the University of Minnesota who became the leading authority on stellar proper motion, cataloging over 200,000 stars and discovering many nearby stars including the well-known Luyten’s Star.
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