Space · astronaut
Ulf Merbold
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
GERMAN
RETIRED
Career
Time in space
49 d 20 h
Spacewalks
0
Flights
3
3 landings
Status
Retired
Agency
European Space AgencyNationality
GermanBorn
20 Jun 1941First flight
28 Nov 1983Most recent flight
03 Oct 1994Type
GovernmentLinks
WikipediaBiography
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.
Flight log
Flights
| No. | Flight | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 03 | Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-20 | 03 Oct 1994 |
| 02 | Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-42 | 22 Jan 1992 |
| 01 | Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-9 | 28 Nov 1983 |
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Source The Space Devs — Launch Library 2
Last checked 29 Sept 2026