Ulf Merbold
Ulf Dietrich Merbold is a German physicist and astronaut who flew to space three times, becoming the first West German citizen in space and the first non-American to fly on a NASA spacecraft. Merbold flew on two Space Shuttle missions and on a Russian mission to the space station Mir, spending a total of 49 days in space.
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- Country
- 🇩🇩 East Germany / 🇩🇪 Germany
- Status
- Active
- Life
- 1941
Spaceflights
- Nov 28, 1983 STS-9
- Jan 22, 1992 STS-42
- Jul 1, 1994 Soyuz TM-19
- Oct 3, 1994 Soyuz TM-20