Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut

Ulf Merbold

German astronaut and physicist (born 1941)

Ulf Dietrich Merbold is a German physicist and astronaut who flew to space three times, becoming the first West German citizen in space and the first non-American to fly on a NASA spacecraft. Merbold flew on two Space Shuttle missions and on a Russian mission to the space…