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ULF MERBOLD Authentic Hand Signed Autograph 4X6 Photo - GERMAN ASTRONAUT
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GERMAN ASTRONAUT - ULF MERBOLD Hand Signed 4X6 Photo . Is Hand Signed by ULF MERBOLD . %100 Authentic Autograph ! The Autograph is BOLD & Looks AMAZING . The photo Is in GREAT Condition & is a High Quality photo. Will be shipped SUPER FAST to you & will be Well packaged . I will ship to you . The SAME DAY you pay :) YES... I even ship on Saturday . Payment MUST be made in 3 days or less after this listing ends ! Combined s&h is Extra each additional listing . In the 3 day Period . Check out my other Low priced autographs & my Fantastic Feedback :) Ad my store to your follow list . I do list NEW Low priced Autographs EVERY DAY ! Upon Request . I do offer my Lifetime Guarantee COA . Just message me at Checkout . Thank you :) AmandaUlf Merbold BornJune 20, 1941 (age 79) Greiz, Thuringia, Germany StatusRetired NationalityGerman OccupationPhysicist Space career ESA Astronaut Time in space49d 21h 36min Selection1978 ESA Group MissionsSTS-9, STS-42, Euromir 94 (Soyuz TM-20/TM-19) Mission insignia 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. Merbold is also the second western European in space (after Jean-Loup Chrétien). In 1978, the European Space Agency (ESA) selected him, along with Wubbo Ockels and Claude Nicollier, to train as payload specialists on the first flight of the Spacelab module. In 1982, he was selected as the prime payload specialist, and in 1983 he flew on board the Columbia on the STS-9 mission. From 1984 to 1985, he participated in the preparation of the first German Spacelab mission, D-1, and served as backup payload specialist for STS-61-A as well as "Crew Interface Coordinator". In 1986, he transferred to the European Space Technology Center (ESTEC) to work on the European Columbus module for the International Space Station. Also in 1986, he became head of the Astronaut Office of the German spaceflight organization DLR. In 1988, NASA nominated Ulf Merbold as payload specialist on the IML-1 mission, which launched on STS-42 in January 1992. The following year he was Science Coordinator for the second German Spacelab mission, D-2 (STS-55). In 1993, he also started training to fly the first of two joint European-Russian missions to the space station Mir, called Euromir 94. In 1994, he was the first ESA astronaut to fly into space with Russia, on board Soyuz TM-20, and returned to Earth on Soyuz TM-19. During his three spaceflights he spent a total of 49 days, 21 hours and 38 minutes in space. Merbold still works for ESA in the Microgravity Promotion Division of the ESA Directorate of Manned Spaceflight and Microgravity at ESTEC, but he is no longer a member of the European Astronaut Corps.