Flight record
3 flights on padside's record, flying from 1983 to 1994.
3Flights
49d 20hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
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.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Flights
- Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-20October 3, 1994
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-42January 22, 1992
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-9November 28, 1983
Born 1941-06-20