1.   Col Phailes, a payload specialist, is attached to the USA Industrial College of the armed forces and was on a UK fact-finding tour with colleagues.

2.   Dr. Michael L. Gernhardt, a veteran of two previous missions, and Dr. Donald A. Thomas, a veteran of three, are payload specialists.

3.   His son, Greg, was the payload specialist.

4.   Sources said US logistics and payload specialists will likely also refuel or otherwise service Blackhawk helicopters involved in strikes across the border.

5.   The payload specialist is Dr. Umberto Guidoni, an Italian astronaut.

6.   Video cameras recorded the birth of more Medaka fish, and payload specialists studied the behavior of jellyfish.

7.   Payload specialists, on the other hand, are not subjected to such intense scrutiny.

8.   Thirsk will be a payload specialist on what NASA is calling the Life and Microgravity Spacelab flight.

9.   The previous two Japanese were payload specialists, a position that requires less training and often is filled by people from private industry or elsewhere outside the space program.