> As far as I know he was also the last east german to travel to space, or wasn‘t he? This issue is somewhat subtle. Let us look at the list of German astronau

> As far as I know he was also the last east german to travel to space, or wasn‘t he? This issue is somewhat subtle. Let us look at the list of German astronauts: > https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liste_deutscher_Raumfahrer&oldid=181491223 https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liste_deutscher_R... If you consider "East German" as "born in the GDR", also Ulf Merbold, the second German in space, who is seen as the first West German in space, is actually East German. :-)