Astronomer Chriet Titulaer has passed away

Astronomer Chriet Titulaer passed away last weekend at the age of 73. The scientist and presenter was of great importance for the popularization of science in the 1970s and 1980s in the field of space travel, ICT and astronomy.

Family members confirmed the death of Chriet Titulaer against De Limburger last weekend. The TV personality, born in Hout-Blerick, had been struggling with health problems for years, including diabetes. Titulaer has been out of the public eye since the late 1990s and he spent the last few years in a private care home in Driebergen.

Titulaer became known as a space expert on TV, including through his accounts of the first moon landing in 1969 and the launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1981. During the 1980s, he presented and produced several TV courses on popular science topics, but He had the most success with his program TROS Wondere Wereld, which was broadcast from 1983 to 1989.

In this program new techniques, scientific developments and gadgets were discussed in the field of space travel, communication, ICT and image and sound. But Titulaer also played a major role in making scientific subjects accessible outside of television. He was co-founder of projects such as the House of the Future, Office of the Future and Hospital of the Future, and in 1986 he organized the space manifestation Space ’86 in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht.

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