and television became relatively rare. He founded projects such as the now defunct Huis van de Toekomst (House of the Future), Kantoor van de Toekomst (Office of the Future) and the Ziekenhuis van de Toekomst (Hospital of the Future). He also co-initiated the recreation and education park for astronomy and space travel Cosmo Science Center in North Brabant. Trivia After the Apollo program was axed in the early '70s Titulaer visited the Rockwell factory and saw one of the unfinished Apollo capsules standing there which had been under construction for one of the cancelled flights at a cost of US$10 million. Jokingly he said he would buy it for $1 and to his surprise the Rockwell representative accepted his offer and held him to the purchase. Martin Schröder, president of Martinair, who was also there said he would stick it in the back of his Boeing 747. The capsule didn't fit through the plane's doors so Titulaer had it shipped to the Netherlands. There it stood in the backyard of his house as a garden ornament for many years until a Japanese gentleman rang his doorbell and offered to buy the capsule for 30,000 Dutch guilders, which Titulaer accepted. An asteroid is named after him: 12133 Titulaer. Public transport company Veolia Transport named one of their Velios trains after Titulaer. His Abraham Lincoln style beard and his soft G resulted in a striking appearance, instantly recognizable in the Netherlands. Titulaer's given name is the short form of Christiaan or Christoffel in Limburg and is pronounced in English as . Several Dutch comedians such as Hilbert Elskamp, Robert Paul, Diederik van Vleuten, André van Duin and Wim de Bie did comic impressions of him. Bibliography Operatie maan (verslag in woord en beeld van de ruimtevaart en maanlanding) (1969) Maanonderzoek (1969) Elseviers atlas van de planeten (1971) Het Grote Hemelboek (1972) Apollo, dossier van het project (1973) Ruimtevaart, moet dat nou? (1974) Landing op Mars (1975) Het grote planetenboek (1976) Leven op andere planeten (1976) De mens in het heelal (1977) De mens en het weer (1979) Van Spoetnik tot spaceshuttle (1979) Televisiesatellieten (1980) Toekomstbeeld (video, kabeltelevisie, satelliettelevisie, huiscomputer, viditel, teletekst) (1980) Fotografie bij de politie (1981) De mens in de ruimte (1981) Een kwart eeuw ruimtevaart (Teleac course book, 1982) De mens en de computer (1983) Bijblijven met de nieuwe media (1983) Het grote hemelboek (1985), De mens in de kosmos