Ulf Dietrich Merbold (German: [ʊlf ˈdiːtrɪç ˈmɛrbɔlt]; born 20 June 1941) is a German physicist and astronaut who flew to space three times, becoming the...
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1986. STS-9 sent the first non-U.S. citizen into space on the Shuttle, Ulf Merbold, becoming the first ESA and first West German citizen to go into space...
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and painter Ulf Nilsson, Swedish ice hockey player Ulf Olsson, Swedish murderer Ulf Ottosson, Swedish soccer player, Mål-Otto Ulf Merbold, German astronaut...
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Yelena Kondakova, and German cosmonaut Ulf Merbold. The flight carried 10 kg of equipment for use by Merbold in ESA's month-long Euromir 94 experiment...
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astronauts – Ulf Merbold, Reinhard Furrer and Ernst Messerschmid – represented West Germany during the time of divided Germany. Merbold made two other...
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from certain NASA requirements such as colorblindness. Roger Crouch and Ulf Merbold are examples of those who flew in space despite not meeting NASA physical...
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NASA Space Shuttle missions as a Payload Specialist. In 1983, he and Ulf Merbold became the first Payload Specialists to fly on the shuttle. Born February...
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CEO of Porsche AG Wilhelm Maybach, engineer and automobile designer Ulf Merbold Frieder Nake Achilles Papapetrou Karl Ramsayer, geodesist, pioneer of...
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Germany acceded to the Federal Republic of Germany. On 22 January 1992, Ulf Merbold again traveled into space, now representing the reunited Germany within...
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professional NASA astronauts and were not employed by NASA. In 1983, Ulf Merbold from the ESA and Byron Lichtenberg from MIT (engineer and Air Force fighter...
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