Ernst Willi Messerschmid (born May 21, 1945) is a German physicist and veteran astronaut. Jump to: navigation, search May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Born in Reutlingen, Germany, Messerschmid finished the Technisches Gymnasium in Stuttgart in 1965. After two years of military service he studied physics at the University of Tübingen and Bonn, receiving diploma degree in 1972 and doctorate in 1976. 1970-75 he was also visiting scientist at the CERN in Geneva, working on proton beams in accelerators and plasmas. 1975-76 he worked at the University of Freiburg and the Brookhaven National Laboratory (New York), 1977 he joined DESY in Hamburg to work on the beam optics of the PETRA storage ring. Position of Reutlingen in Germany Reutlingen is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Jump to: navigation, search Stuttgart, a city located in southern Germany, is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg with a population of approximately 2 million as of May 2005. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (German: Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen) is a state-supported university located on the Neckar river, in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... The main building, viewed from the Hofgarten. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search CERN logo CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire), the worlds largest particle physics laboratory, situated on the border between France and Switzerland, just west of Geneva. ... Jump to: navigation, search Jet dEau in Geneva City Streets City Streets Geneva (French: Genève) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland, situated where Lake Geneva (known in France as Lac Léman and in Switzerland as Lac de Genève) flows into the Rhône River. ... Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg was founded 1457 in Freiburg by the Habsburgs. ... Aerial view of Brookhaven National Laboratory. ... The DESY (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, German Electron Synchrotron) is a German physics research institute. ... Jump to: navigation, search Hamburg is Germanys second largest city (after Berlin) and, with the Hamburg Harbour, its principal port. ...

1978-1982 he worked at the DFVLR (the precursor of the DLR) in the Institute of Communications Technology in Oberpfaffenhofen on space-borne communications. 1983 he was selected as one of the astronauts for the first German Spacelab mission D1. He flew as payload specialist on STS-61-A in 1985, spending over 168 hours in space. Jump to: navigation, search 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The German Aerospace Center (DLR) (German: ) is the national research center for aviation and space flight of the Federal Republic of Germany and of other member states in the Helmholtz Association. ... Oberpfaffenhofen is a village which is part of the municipality of Weßling in the district of Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Spacelab in payload bay during STS-90 Spacelab is a microgravity laboratory flown into space on the Space Shuttle. ... STS-61-A was the 22nd Space Shuttle mission. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year. ...

After his spaceflight he became professor at the Institut für Raumfahrtsysteme at the University of Stuttgart. Since 1999 he is head of the European Astronaut Center in Cologne. January 2005 he came back to the University of Stuttgart teaching on Subjects of Astronautics and Space Stations. The Universität Stuttgart is the University of Stuttgart. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1999(MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Jump to: navigation, search Cologne skyline at night with river Rhine in the foreground and famous Cologne Cathedral on the right. ...

External links

• NASA biography
• Spacefacts biography of Ernst Messerschmid