“Happiness prevails!” Two words of Adolf Ogi (80) went down in Swiss history. In 1992, the Federal Council expressed the enthusiasm felt by many in the country at the time: Claude Nicollier (78) was the first Swiss person to go into space.
It’s been 30 years since the shuttle mission STS-46 and Nicollier’s historic space flight. Ogi was at the Lucerne Transport Museum at the time, and in a live broadcast Claude Nicollier the legendary “Joy reigns!” with.
The Swiss Apollo association invites people to the Swiss Transport Museum in Lucerne on Friday to celebrate its anniversary. “We want to properly celebrate the history and achievements of Claude Nicollier,” says Lukas Viglietti (52), president of the Swiss Apollo association. The airline pilot wrote four books about space, including the Apollo moon mission. (no)