ASTRONAUT

Ulf Merbold

1941 - Today

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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 first West German citizen in space and the first non-American to fly on a NASA spacecraft. Merbold flew on two Space Shuttle missions and on a Russian mission to the space station Mir, spending a total of 49 days in space. Merbold's father was imprisoned in NKVD special camp Nr. 2 by the Red Army in 1945 and died there in 1948, and Merbold was brought up in the town of Greiz in East Germany by his mother and grandparents. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ulf Merbold is the 120th most popular astronaut (up from 139th in 2019), the 3,345th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,018th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Ulf Merbold ranks 120 out of 556. Before him are Wubbo Ockels, Phạm Tuân, Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Pyotr Klimuk, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov, and Susan Kilrain. After him are Bertalan Farkas, Nancy J. Currie-Gregg, Mary Ellen Weber, Georgy Shonin, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, and Dirk Frimout.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Ulf Merbold ranks 270. Before him are Maurice Piat, Vlado Milunić, Miriam Margolyes, Roberto Calasso, Bakili Muluzi, and Silvio Moser. After him are Ahmed al-Mirghani, Tomaž Šalamun, Robert D. Putnam, Mike Love, Airto Moreira, and Wu Bangguo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ulf Merbold ranks 3,347 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Ciliax (1891), Albertus Pictor (1440), Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1839), Theodor Oberländer (1905), Janosch (1931), and John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Küstrin (1513). After him are Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau (1785), Erich Neumann (1905), Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen (1815), Ernst Schäfer (1910), Walther Kossel (1888), and Ernst Lehner (1912).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Germany

Among astronauts born in Germany, Ulf Merbold ranks 2. Before him are Sigmund Jähn (1937). After him are Hans Schlegel (1951), Thomas Reiter (1958), Ernst Messerschmid (1945), Jean-Jacques Favier (1949), Klaus-Dietrich Flade (1952), Ulrich Walter (1954), Reinhold Ewald (1956), Gerhard Thiele (1953), Alexander Gerst (1976), and Matthias Maurer (1970).

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