Ernst Messerschmid

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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.

Born in

Reutlingen

Education

University of Tübingen; University of Bonn

Awards

Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg; Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

From Wikidata.

• Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-61-APayload Specialist · Success · with Bonnie J. Dunbar, Guion Bluford, Henry 'Hank' Hartsfield, James Buchli, Reinhard Furrer, Steven R. Nagel, Wubbo OckelsOctober 30, 1985