3
FLIGHTS
SPACEFLIGHTS
85
YEARS
AGE
Ulf Merbold is a former astronaut from European Space Agency. 3 spaceflights.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Ulf Dietrich Merbold (born June 20, 1941) is the first West German citizen and second German native (after Sigmund Jähn) to have flown in space. He is also the first member of the European Space Agency Astronaut Corps to participate in a spaceflight mission and the first non-US citizen to reach orbit in a US spacecraft. In 1983, he and Byron Lichtenberg became the first Payload Specialists to fly on the shuttle.
PERSONAL DETAILS
NationalityGermany
BornJune 20, 1941
AgencyEuropean Space Agency
TypeGovernment
StatusFormer
First FlightNovember 28, 1983
Last FlightOctober 3, 1994