Astronaut Team
The astronaut team was established in 1987 as part of the preparation for the second German sponsored Spacelab mission D-2. The group consisted of 5 astronaut candidates, of which Hans Schlegel and Ulrich Walter flew on STS-55 in 1993, Gerhard Thiele flew on a later space shuttle mission STS-99, then as a member of the unified ESA astronaut corps, while only the two women never did any spaceflight. Hans Schlegel flew his second mission STS-122 in 2008 also as a member of the unified ESA astronaut corps.
- Renate Brümmer
- Hans Schlegel
- Gerhard Thiele
- Heike Walpot
- Ulrich Walter
For a German mission to the space station Mir two cosmonauts were selected in 1990, and were also included into the German team. Klaus-Dietrich Flade flew on Soyuz TM-14 in 1992, Reinhold Ewald on a second Mir mission on Soyuz TM-25 in February 1997.
- Reinhold Ewald
- Klaus-Dietrich Flade
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