German astronauts from the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Space Agency program, who flew on Spacelab Shuttle missions, the Mir station and the International Space Station. A person belongs here when the cited article calls them a German astronaut or a German ESA astronaut. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
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Ulf Merbold - Wikipedia
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Ulf Dietrich Merbold (German: [ʊlf ˈdiːtrɪç ˈmɛrbɔlt]; born 20 June 1941) 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.
Alexander Gerst - Wikipedia
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Alexander Gerst (born 3 May 1976) is a German European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and geophysicist, who was selected in 2009 to take part in space training.
Matthias Maurer (Wikipedia)
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Matthias Josef Maurer (born 18 March 1970) is a German ESA astronaut and materials scientist, who was selected in 2015 to take part in space training.
Thomas Reiter (Wikipedia)
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Thomas Arthur Reiter (born 23 May 1958 in Frankfurt, West Germany) is a retired European astronaut and is a Brigadier General in the German Air Force currently working as ESA Interagency Coordinator and Advisor to the Director General at the European Space Agency (ESA).
Hans Schlegel (Wikipedia)
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Hans Wilhelm Schlegel (Überlingen, 3 August 1951) is a German physicist, a former ESA astronaut, and a veteran of two NASA Space Shuttle missions.
Reinhold Ewald (Wikipedia)
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Reinhold Ewald (born 18 December 1956) is a German physicist and ESA astronaut.
Ernst Messerschmid (Wikipedia)
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Ernst Willi Messerschmid (born 21 May 1945) is a German physicist and former astronaut.
Gerhard Thiele (Wikipedia)
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Gerhard Paul Julius Thiele (born 2 September 1953) is a German physicist and a former ESA astronaut.
Wikipedia: Renate Brummer
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Renate Luise Brümmer (born 4 May 1955) is a Swiss-born German meteorological scientist and former astronaut.
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