Ulf Merbold Autographs
Ulf Dietrich Merbold (German: ; 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. 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.
Merbold's father was imprisoned in NKVD special camp Nr. 2 by the Red Army in 1945 and died there in 1948, and Merbold was brought up in the town of Greiz in East Germany by his mother and grandparents. As he was not allowed to attend university in East Germany, he left for West Berlin in 1960, planning to study physics there. After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, he moved to Stuttgart, West Germany. In 1968, he graduated from the University of Stuttgart with a diploma in physics, and in 1976 he gained a doctorate with a dissertation about the effect of radiation on iron. He then joined the staff at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research.
In 1977, Merbold successfully applied to the European Space Agency (ESA) to become one of their first astronauts. He started astronaut training with NASA in 1978. In 1983, Merbold flew to space for the first time as a payload specialist or science astronaut on the first Spacelab mission, STS-9, aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. He performed experiments in materials science and on the effects of microgravity on humans. In 1989, Merbold was selected as payload specialist for the International Microgravity Laboratory-1 (IML-1) Spacelab mission STS-42, which launched in January 1992 on the Space Shuttle Discovery. Again, he mainly performed experiments in life sciences and materials science in microgravity. After ESA decided to cooperate with Russia, Merbold was chosen as one of the astronauts for the joint ESA–Russian Euromir missions and received training at the Russian Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He flew to space for the third and last time in October 1994, spending a month working on experiments on the Mir space station.
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Traded items with a signature of Ulf Merbold
The most expensive item with a signature of Ulf Merbold (8x10 Sized Autographed Photo of German Astronaut Ulf Merbold) was sold in November 2017 for $75.00 while the cheapest item (ULF MERBOLD Authentic Hand Signed Autograph 4X6 Photo - GERMAN ASTRONAUT) found a new owner for $0.01 in July 2021. The month with the most items sold (5) was February 2010 with an average selling price of $5.27 for an autographed item of Ulf Merbold. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in November 2017 with $75.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $1.00 was November 2016. In average, an autographed item from Ulf Merbold is worth $7.51.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Ulf Merbold were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | ASTRONAUT ULF MERBOLD SIGNED 8X10 PHOTO | $5.00 |  |
| Dr Ulf Merbold Autographed 7.5X8.5 Photo with COA | $24.00 | |
| STS-9 signed cover NASA Ulf Merbold & Byron Lichtenberg | $13.96 | |
| ULF MERBOLD Authentic 2 Hand Signed Autograph 4X6 Photo 's - GERMAN ASTRONAUT | $1.36 | |
| ULF MERBOLD Authentic Hand Signed Autograph 4X6 Photo - GERMAN ASTRONAUT | $6.00 | |
| ULF MERBOLD Authentic Hand Signed Autograph 4X6 Photo - GERMAN ASTRONAUT | $6.65 | |
| ULF MERBOLD Authentic Hand Signed Autograph 4X6 Photo - GERMAN ASTRONAUT | $0.01 | |
| ULF MERBOLD Authentic Hand Signed Autograph 4X6 Photo - GERMAN ASTRONAUT | $5.51 | |
| ULF MERBOLD Authentic Hand Signed Autograph 4X6 Photo - GERMAN ASTRONAUT | $2.25 | |
| ULF MERBOLD Authentic Hand Signed Autograph 4X6 Photo - GERMAN ASTRONAUT | $7.51 | |
| ULF MERBOLD Authentic Hand Signed Autograph 4X6 Photo CARD - GERMAN ASTRONAUT | $7.51 | |
 | Ulf Merbold German Esa Space Astronaut Original Autograph Signed Mail Cover 1982 | $49.99 | |
| ULF MERBOLD Signed 7x9 Photo..GERMAN Astronaut | $1.99 | |
| Ulf Merbold signed portrait with FLOWN STS-9 Columbia foil - 490 | $21.05 | |
| Vintage Ulf Merbold NASA Autographed Space Astronaut Signed 8x10 Photo | $10.00 | |
