Oberpfaffenhofen

Oberpfaffenhofen is a village which is part of the municipality of Weßling in the district of Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany.

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Municipality - Weßling - District of Starnberg - Bavaria - Germany

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The village is home to a major site of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR) and became hence known to a wide audience when, in 1983 the first German astronaut, the physicist Ulf Merbold flew to space on board a Space Shuttle in the context of the Spacelab missions. These missions were partly supervised by Oberpfaffenhofen ground control.1

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German Aerospace Center - 1983 - Astronaut - Physicist - Ulf Merbold - Space Shuttle - Spacelab

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The research centre in Oberpfaffenhofen is fairly large, not only housing the DLR, but also Fraunhofer Institutes and other scientific institutes.

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1 Only the scientific mission control was in Oberpfaffenhofen, the technical stayed with NASA in Houston.

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NASA - Houston

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