German Astronaut
1. Ulf Merbold (1941)
German Astronaut
The first West German citizen and second German to fly in space.
2. Thomas Reiter (1958)
German Astronaut
The first German astronaut to conduct a spacewalk. During his six missions, he spent more than 350 days in space. He later served as the European Space Agency's Director of...
3. Gerhard Thiele (1953)
German Astronaut
German physicist and retired ESA astronaut who flew on one space mission, STS-99.
4. Ulrich Walter (1954)
German Astronaut
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Ulrich Hans Walter is a German physicist/engineer and a former DFVLR astronaut. Walter was born in Iserlohn. After finishing secondary school there and two years...
5. Hans Schlegel (1951)
German Astronaut
Hans Wilhelm Schlegel is a German physicist an ESA astronaut and a veteran of two NASA Space Shuttle missions.
6. Klaus-Dietrich Flade (1952)
German Astronaut
Klaus-Dietrich Flade is a German pilot and former German Aerospace Center astronaut who visited the Mir space station in 1992 aboard the Soyuz TM-14 mission returning to Earth a week...
7. Reinhold Ewald (1956)
German Astronaut
Dr. Reinhold Ewald is a German physicist and ESA astronaut. Born in Mönchengladbach Germany he received diploma in experimental physics from the University of Cologne in 1983 and the Ph....