Ulf Dietrich Merbold (German: [ʊlf ˈdiːtrɪç ˈmɛrbɔlt]; born 20 June 1941) is a German physicist and astronaut who flew to space three times, becoming the...

and painter Ulf Nilsson, Swedish ice hockey player Ulf Olsson, Swedish murderer Ulf Ottosson, Swedish soccer player, Mål-Otto Ulf Merbold, German astronaut...

1986. STS-9 sent the first non-U.S. citizen into space on the Shuttle, Ulf Merbold, becoming the first ESA and first West German citizen to go into space...

Yelena Kondakova, and German cosmonaut Ulf Merbold. The flight carried 10 kg of equipment for use by Merbold in ESA's month-long Euromir 94 experiment...

from certain NASA requirements such as colorblindness. Roger Crouch and Ulf Merbold are examples of those who flew in space despite not meeting NASA physical...

NASA Space Shuttle missions as a Payload Specialist. In 1983, he and Ulf Merbold became the first Payload Specialists to fly on the shuttle. Born February...

Germany acceded to the Federal Republic of Germany. On 22 January 1992, Ulf Merbold again traveled into space, now representing the reunited Germany within...

CEO of Porsche AG Wilhelm Maybach, engineer and automobile designer Ulf Merbold Frieder Nake Achilles Papapetrou Karl Ramsayer, geodesist, pioneer of...

astronauts – Ulf Merbold, Reinhard Furrer and Ernst Messerschmid – represented West Germany during the time of divided Germany. Merbold made two other...

professional NASA astronauts and were not employed by NASA. In 1983, Ulf Merbold from the ESA and Byron Lichtenberg from MIT (engineer and Air Force fighter...

on the Space Shuttle on Spacelab missions. Among this first group was Ulf Merbold, who then also flew the first Spacelab mission STS-9. In the second ESA...

Robertson; astronauts Neil Armstrong, Gene Cernan, Bill Anders, and Ulf Merbold; and test pilots and record-holders: Chuck Yeager, Johnny Myers, Clay...

obtained this position with the support of his West German colleague Ulf Merbold and remained there for the following 15 years. The two had met in 1984...

astronauts on a shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster, Ulf D. Merbold and Roberta Bondar. Merbold was West Germany first astronaut and was making his second...

Space Shuttle flight of an ESA astronaut or a West German citizen, as Ulf Merbold, who also served as the backup on this mission, had previously flown...

Training Centre. In 1993, a contract for two flights was signed, with Ulf Merbold and Thomas Reiter being the prime candidates for 1994 and 1995, respectively...

Having served his role as back-up payload specialist for German astronaut Ulf Merbold, he took his place in Mission Control in Houston as the primary communicator...

or parent institution human spaceflight missions: FSLP (1983), with Ulf Merbold using Spaceman on STS-9 D1 (1985), with Reinhard Furrer and Ernst Messerschmid...

but rather as a member of the French CNES astronaut corps, the German Ulf Merbold is considered the first ESA astronaut to fly into space. He participated...

but rather as a member of the French CNES astronaut corps, the German Ulf Merbold is considered the first ESA astronaut to fly into space. He participated...

Space Shuttle, the U.S. began taking international astronauts. In 1983, Ulf Merbold of West Germany became the first non-US citizen to fly in a US spacecraft...

steel-string guitar Ulrike Meinhof (1934–1976), journalist and terrorist Ulf Merbold (born 1941), astronaut Carl von Ossietzky (1889–1938), journalist and...

SpaceShipOne flight 15P and 16P Leland D. Melvin — STS-122, STS-129 Ulf Merbold — STS-9, STS-42, Soyuz TM-20/19 Ernst Messerschmid — STS-61-A Dorothy...

Antarès (1992)  France Jean-Pierre Haigneré – Altair (1993)  France Ulf Merbold – Euromir '94 (1994)  Germany Thomas Reiter – Euromir '95 (1995)  Germany...

Mir by Malenchenko. On November 4, 1994, Malenchenko, Musabayev and Ulf Merbold returned to Earth aboard their Soyuz capsule after landing 88 km northeast...

Spacelab mission. He made it into the final round of candidates, although Ulf Merbold was finally selected. In 1982, the astronauts for the first German Spacelab...

This allows for safer catch for players. In 1992, German astronaut Ulf Merbold performed an experiment aboard Spacelab that established that boomerangs...

1941 – Stephen Frears, English actor, director, and producer 1941 – Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut 1942 – Neil Trudinger, Australian mathematician...

payload specialists were Byron K. Lichtenberg and West German astronaut Ulf Merbold. The mission was initially scheduled to launch on October 29, but was...

carried, including the first non-American astronaut on a space shuttle, Ulf Merbold. After the flight, it spent 18 months at the Rockwell Palmdale facility...