Top Quotes & Sayings by Ulf Merbold

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American astronaut Ulf Merbold.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Ulf Merbold

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. He flew on two Space Shuttle missions and on a Russian mission to the space station Mir, spending a total of 49 days in space.

For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark blue light-our atmosphere. Obviously this was not the ocean of air I had been told it was so many times in my life. I was terrified by its fragile appearance.
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