9th Space Shuttle Mission

6th Flight of Columbia

Crew:

John W. Young, Commander

Brewster H. Shaw, Jr., Pilot

Owen K. Garriott, Mission Specialist

Robert A.R. Parker, Mission Specialist

Byron K. Lichtenberg, Payload Specialist

Ulf Merbold, Payload Specialist

Columbia carried the first Spacelab module and first astronaut to represent the European Space Agency (ESA), Ulf Merbold of (West) Germany. ESA and NASA jointly sponsored Spacelab-1 and conducted investigations which demonstrated the feasibility of advanced research in space.