# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ulf-merbold
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:11:17.020Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ulf-merbold"
name: "Ulf Merbold"
slug: "ulf-merbold"
description: "Ulf Dietrich Merbold 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."
tagline: "German astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Persconferentie_bij_ESTEC_in_Noordwijk_met_de_astronaut_Ulf_Merbold%2C_Bestanddeelnr_932-8300.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1941-06-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump