Item no. M407 (meter)

Type: frankmark

Country: Germany

Date of use: 27 September 1985

Meter and similar label on cover with slogan “Zeiss Optik in Weltraum” [“The Zeiss Optics in the Space”], commemorating not only the use of ZEISS optics in space exploration but also the participation of German scientist (Dr. Ulf Dietrich Merbold) in the Columbia Space Shuttle Spacelab-1 10-day mission (aka STS-9) finished on 8 December 1983, as a crew member (serving as a European Space Agency's Payload Specialist).