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This image shows signed photo of German physicist and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Ulf Merbold posing near a spacecraft simulator or module.
He was born on June 20, 1941, in Greiz, Germany.
He became the first ESA astronaut to fly in space during the Space Shuttle Spacelab-1 (STS-9) mission in 1983.
He participated in three spaceflights, including STS-9, STS-42, and the Russian Soyuz TM-20 mission to the Mir space station.
