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Ulf Merbold

German physicist and astronaut
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John M. Logsdon is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. He was a member of the NASA Advisory Council...
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Ulf Merbold (born June 20, 1941, Greiz, Ger.) is a German physicist who was the first European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut to go into space, as a payload specialist aboard the U.S. Spacelab-1 flight from Nov. 28 to Dec. 8, 1983. He was also the first ESA astronaut to fly to the Russian space station Mir, in 1994. Merbold received a doctorate in science in 1976 from Stuttgart University and worked at the Max Planck...

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