Lodewijk van den Berg (b. 1932) is the first Dutch-born citizen to participate in spaceflight. Born in Sluiskil, he was on Challenger flight STS-51B in 1985. As payload specialist he performed several experiments on crystals for the Spacelab 3 mission. The name was suggested by W. A. Fröger.
Discovered on 17-10-1960 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.