Career record
Flights
3
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
49d 20h
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0
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.
Launches
- Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-20 — Research Cosmonaut · Success · October 3, 1994
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-42 — Payload Specialist · Success · January 22, 1992
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-9 — Payload Specialist · Success · November 28, 1983
Born 1941-06-20