Ulf Merbold, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ulf Merbold

German astronaut

Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1941

Place of Birth: Greiz, Thuringia, Germany

Profession: astronaut, physicist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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 Space Shuttle.