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Re:Sigmund Jähn, the first German to travel into space by amai on Sunday October 21, 2018 @03:16PM (#18269617)
As far as I know he was also the last east german to travel to space, or wasn‘t he?
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Re:Sigmund Jähn, the first German to travel into space by wolfgke on Sunday October 21, 2018 @04:28PM (#18270028)
> 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_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. :-)

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