Ulf Merbold
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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
Official portrait for STS-42, 1991
Ulf Merbold, Franco Malerba and Wubbo Ockels in 1978
Crew of STS-9, from left to right: Owen Garriott, Byron K. Lichtenberg, Brewster H. Shaw, John Young, Ulf Merbold, Robert A. Parker
Spacelab in Columbia's payload bay
STS-9
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STS-9 was the ninth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the sixth mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia. Launched on November 28, 1983, the ten-day mission carried the first Spacelab laboratory module into
Ulf Merbold
…training with NASA in 1978. In 1983, Merbold flew to space for the first time as a payload specialist or science astronaut on the first Spacelab mission, STS-9, aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. He performed experiments in materials science and on the effects of microgravity on humans. In 1989, Merbold was…
STS-9 launches from Kennedy Space Center, on November 28, 1983.
Space Shuttle Columbia lands following STS 62 on 18 March 1994.