Dr. Ulf Merbold, born June 20, 1941 in Germany, is a retired European Space Agency astronaut and went into space three times.
His first mission was aboard Columbia (STS-9) as payload specialist in November-December 1983. He is the first non-US citizen to reach orbit in a US spacecraft.
His second mission was aboard Discovery (STS-42) as payload specialist in January 1992. The main goal of the mission was to study microgravity on different organisms.
His third and final mission was aboard Soyuz TM-20 as research cosmonaut to the space station Mir in October 1994. He participated in a month-long expedition Euromir 94. He returned to Earth in November 1994 on Soyuz TM-19.
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