Career record
Flights
1
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
7d
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0
Biography
Ernst Willi Messerschmid (born May 21, 1945) is a German physicist and former astronaut. From 1978 to 1982, he worked at the DFVLR (the precursor of the DLR) in the Institute of Communications Technology in Oberpfaffenhofen on space-borne communications. In 1983, he was selected as one of the astronauts for the first German Spacelab mission D-1. He flew as payload specialist on STS-61-A in 1985, spending over 168 hours in space.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-61-A — Payload Specialist · Success · October 30, 1985
Born 1945-05-21