ESA Astronauts | Signatures

FRANK DE WINNE Silver ink signature of the first ESA astronaut to command a space mission Signature: "Frank/De Winne", 5x3 card. Frank De Winne (b. 1961) was a Belgian Air Force test pilot and fighter/bomber pilot, flying 17 NATO combat missions in the Balkans.

ULF MERBOLD The German physicist signs and adds a German address. Signature: "U. Merbold, Mittl. Kirchhaldenweg 18/70195 Stuttgart, Germany" in black ink, 5¾x3. German physicist Ulf Merbold (b. 1941), who earned a PhD at the University of Stuttgart, flew two missions on the Spacelab - a modular laboratory developed by the ESA for missions on the U.S.