Ernst Messerschmid is a German physicist and former astronaut who earned a physics degree in 1972 and a doctorate in 1976, with research experience at CERN and DESY. He was selected in 1983 as part of the crew for the first German Spacelab mission and flew his only spaceflight as a payload specialist on Space Shuttle mission STS-61-A in 1985, spending over 168 hours in space. He later became a professor of astronautics and space systems at the University of Stuttgart and directed the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne from 2000 to 2004.
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He flew as a payload specialist on STS-61-A in 1985, spending over 168 hours in space.
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Ernst Willi Messerschmid (born 21 May 1945) is a German physicist and former astronaut.
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he worked at the DFVLR (the precursor of the DLR)
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1945
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