The scientific manager of the D1 Spacelab mission, Peter R. Sahm

Peter R. Sahm was the scientific manager of the 1985 German D1 Spacelab mission, the 1993 German D2 mission and the 1997 Russian/German MIR97 mission. From 1979 onwards he worked as a Professor at RWTH Aachen University (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen). In 1986 he founded the Aachen Centre for Solidification in Microgravity (Aachener Centrum für Erstarrung unter Schwerelosigkeit; ACCESS). That same year he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz prize.