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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
 vernacular, a Payload Specialist (PS) was an individual selected and trained by commercial or research organizations for flights of a specific payload on a Space Shuttle
Space Shuttle

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System , is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions....
 mission. Payload specialists included non-NASA astronauts designated by the international partners, individuals selected by the research community, or a company or consortia flying a commercial payload aboard the spacecraft.

oad Specialists were generally selected for a single specific mission and were chosen outside the astronaut training process.






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In NASA
NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
 vernacular, a Payload Specialist (PS) was an individual selected and trained by commercial or research organizations for flights of a specific payload on a Space Shuttle
Space Shuttle

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System , is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions....
 mission. Payload specialists included non-NASA astronauts designated by the international partners, individuals selected by the research community, or a company or consortia flying a commercial payload aboard the spacecraft.

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Payload Specialists were generally selected for a single specific mission and were chosen outside the astronaut training process. They were not required to be United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 citizens, but had to be approved by NASA and undergo rigorous training. In contrast, a Mission Specialist
Mission Specialist

A Mission Specialist is a position held by certain NASA astronauts for the Space Shuttle program. A Mission Specialist is assigned to a limited field of the mission, such as for medical tests or technical quests....
 is selected as an astronaut
Astronaut

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a List of human spaceflight programs to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
 first and then assigned to a mission.

Payload Specialists on early missions were technical experts to accompany specific payloads such as a commercial or scientific satellite. On Spacelab
Spacelab

Spacelab was a reusable laboratory flown into space on the Space Shuttle. It allowed scientists to perform experiments in microgravity in Earth orbit....
 and other missions with science components, payload specialists were scientists with expertise in specific experiments. The term also applied to representatives from partner nations who were given the opportunity of a first flight on board of the Space Shuttle (such as Saudi Arabia and Mexico), and to Congressmen and the Teacher in Space program.

Other roles on board Space Shuttle were Mission Commander
Commander

Commander is a military rank which is also sometimes used as a military title depending on the individual customs of a given military service. Commander is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the military, particularly in police and law enforcement....
,Pilot
Aviator

An aviator is a person who flies aircraft for pleasure or as a profession.The feminine word aviatrix is sometimes used and is the correct term to refer to all women pilots....
, and Mission Specialist
Mission Specialist

A Mission Specialist is a position held by certain NASA astronauts for the Space Shuttle program. A Mission Specialist is assigned to a limited field of the mission, such as for medical tests or technical quests....
. Contrary to other Shuttle crew, international or scientific Payload Specialists were generally assigned as back-up crew (back-up Payload Specialist or alternate payload specialist).

Payload Specialists were flown from 1983 (STS-9
STS-9

STS-9 was the 6th mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia It was Columbia's last flight until early January of 1986, STS-61C. It was also the last time the old Space Transportation System numbering was used until STS-26 ....
) to 2003 (STS-107
STS-107

STS-107 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Columbia, launched January 16, 2003. This was a multi-disciplinary microgravity and Earth science research mission with a multitude of international scientific investigations conducted continuously during 16 days in orbit....
). NASA does not foresee any more need to fly payload specialists before the end of the Shuttle program in 2010. The last flown payload specialist was the first Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon
Ilan Ramon

Ilan Ramon was a fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and later the first Israeli astronaut. Ramon was the space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107, the fatal mission of Space Shuttle Columbia, where he and six other crew members were killed in a re-entry accident over Southern Texas....
 on board STS-107
STS-107

STS-107 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Columbia, launched January 16, 2003. This was a multi-disciplinary microgravity and Earth science research mission with a multitude of international scientific investigations conducted continuously during 16 days in orbit....
, who was killed in the Columbia disaster
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster occurred on February 1, 2003, when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, with the loss of all seven crew members, shortly before it was scheduled to conclude its 28th mission, STS-107....
 with the rest of the crew.

List of all Payload Specialists


Pre-Challenger

  • STS-9
    STS-9

    STS-9 was the 6th mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia It was Columbia's last flight until early January of 1986, STS-61C. It was also the last time the old Space Transportation System numbering was used until STS-26 ....
Ulf Merbold
Ulf Merbold

Ulf Dietrich Merbold is the first West Germany and second Germany astronaut as well as the first ESA astronaut to fly in space. He also holds the distinction of being the first non-US citizen to reach orbit in a US spacecraft....
, Byron K. Lichtenberg
Byron K. Lichtenberg

Byron Kurt Lichtenberg, Sc. D. is an United States engineer who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a Payload Specialist....
 (first payload specialists, Ulf Merbold was the first international (German) payload specialist)
  • STS-41-D
    STS-41-D

    STS-41-D was the first Space Shuttle mission for Space Shuttle Discovery. It was the 12th shuttle mission, and launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on August 30, 1984....
Charles Walker
  • STS-41-G
    STS-41-G

    STS 41-G marked the 13th flight of a Space Shuttle and the sixth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. It conducted the second landing at Kennedy Space Center....
Marc Garneau
Marc Garneau

Captain Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau, Order of Canada, Canadian Forces Decoration, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute is a Canadian astronaut, engineer and politician....
, Paul D. Scully-Power
Paul D. Scully-Power

Paul Desmond Scully-Power Order of Australia is an oceanographer. While a civilian employee of the United States Naval Undersea Warfare Center, he flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-41-G as a Payload Specialist....
 (Garneau was the first Canadian in space)
  • STS-51-C
    STS-51-C

    STS 51-C was the fifteenth flight of a Space Shuttle, the third flight of Space Shuttle Discovery, and the first United States Department of Defense mission....
Gary Payton
Gary Payton (astronaut)

Colonel Gary Eugene Payton, USAF, is a former United States astronaut....
 (first military payload specialist)
  • STS-51-D
    STS-51-D

    STS 51-D was the sixteenth flight of a Space Shuttle and the fourth flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. It conducted the fifth landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida....
Charles Walker, Jake Garn
Jake Garn

Edwin Jacob Garn is an American politician, a member of the Republican Party , and served as a United States Senate representing Utah from 1974 to 1993....
 (first legislative branch payload specialist)
  • STS-51-B
    STS-51-B

    STS 51-B was the seventeenth flight of a Space Shuttle and the seventh flight of Space Shuttle Challenger....
Lodewijk van den Berg
Lodewijk van den Berg

Lodewijk van den Berg is a Dutch American chemical engineer, specializing in crystal growth, who flew on a 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission as a Payload Specialist....
, Taylor G. Wang
  • STS-51-G
    STS-51-G

    STS 51-G was the eighteenth flight of a space shuttle, and the fifth flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 17, 1985....
Patrick Baudry
Patrick Baudry

Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry , is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the French Air Force and a former CNES astronaut. In 1985, he became the second French citizen in space, after Jean-Loup Chr?tien, when he flew aboard NASA's Space Shuttle mission STS-51-G....
, Sultan Salman Al Saud (two international payload specialists)
  • STS-51-F
    STS-51-F

    STS-51-F was the eighth flight of Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Challenger, and the nineteenth shuttle flight.The payload with most publicity was the Carbonated Beverage Dispenser Evaluation, which was an experiment where both Coca-Cola and Pepsi tried to make their drinks available to astronauts....
Loren W. Acton, John-David F. Bartoe
John-David F. Bartoe

John-David Francis Bartoe is an United States astrophysicist. He is the Research Manager for the International Space Station at NASA?s Johnson Space Center....
  • STS-51-J
    STS-51-J

    STS-51-J was a space shuttle mission by NASA that was the first to use the Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was the 21st mission, and carried a payload for the U.S....
William A. Pailes
William A. Pailes

William Arthur Pailes was a USAF astronaut in the Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program during the mid-1980s. He served as a Payload Specialist on STS-51-J Space Shuttle Atlantis ....
  • STS-61-A
    STS-61-A

    STS-61-A was the 22nd Space Shuttle mission. It was a scientific Spacelab mission booked by Germany - hence the payload name D-1 . It was also the last successful mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger....
Reinhard Furrer
Reinhard Furrer

Reinhard Alfred Furrer was a Germany scientist and astronaut.Furrer was born in W?rgl, Austria . After the end of World War II, his father was expelled from Austria....
, Ernst Messerschmid
Ernst Messerschmid

Ernst Willi Messerschmid is a Germany physicist and former astronaut.Born in Reutlingen, Germany, Messerschmid finished the Technisches Gymnasium in Stuttgart in 1965....
, Wubbo Ockels
Wubbo Ockels

Wubbo Johannes Ockels is a The Netherlands physicist and astronaut. In 1985 he participated in a flight of the Space Shuttle program, making him the first and only Dutch citizen in space, until the flight of Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers to the ISS in 2004....
 (three international payload specialists, most payload specialists on a single flight)
  • STS-61-B
    STS-61-B

    STS-61-B was the 23rd Space Shuttle mission, and the second using the Space Shuttle Atlantis orbiter.Crew*Brewster H. Shaw, Jr....
Rodolfo Neri Vela
Rodolfo Neri Vela

Rodolfo Neri Vela is a Mexico scientist who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission in 1985. He is the only Mexico citizen to fly in space....
, Charles Walker (third and final flight of Charles Walker, Neri Vela was the first Mexican in space)
  • STS-61-C
    STS-61-C

    STS-61-C was the twenty-fourth Space mission of the Space Shuttle, and the seventh mission of Space Shuttle Columbia. It was the first time Columbia flew since STS-9....
Robert J. Cenker
Robert J. Cenker

Robert Joseph Cenker is an Aerospace Systems Consultant....
, Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson

Clarence William "Bill" Nelson is the senior United States Senate from Florida. Nelson is a member of the Democratic Party. Nelson became the Jake Garn of the United States Congress to fly in space when he flew aboard the as a Payload Specialist during NASA mission STS-61-C ....
  • STS-51-L
    STS-51-L

    STS-51-L was the twenty-fifth flight of the American Space Shuttle program, which marked the first time a civilian had flown aboard the Space Shuttle....
Gregory Jarvis
Gregory Jarvis

Gregory Bruce Jarvis was an United States engineer who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as payload specialist....
, Christa McAuliffe
Christa McAuliffe

Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe , better known simply as Christa McAuliffe n?e Sharon Christa Corrigan, was an United States teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire....
 (killed in the Challenger disaster)

From Challenger to Columbia

  • STS-35
    STS-35

    STS-35 was the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Columbia, the thirty-eighth shuttle flight, and a mission devoted to deploying ASTRO-1, an observatory consisting of 4 telescopes....
Samuel T. Durrance
Samuel T. Durrance

Samuel Thornton Durrance is a NASA payload specialist....
, Ronald A. Parise
Ronald A. Parise

Ronald Anthony Parise, Ph.D. was an United States scientist and NASA astronaut and who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist....
 (first post-Challenger payload specialists)
  • STS-40
    STS-40

    STS-40, the eleventh launch of Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Columbia, was a nine-day mission. It carried the Spacelab module for Spacelab Life Sciences 1 , the fifth Spacelab mission and the first dedicated solely to biology....
F. Drew Gaffney
F. Drew Gaffney

Francis Andrew "Drew" Gaffney, M.D. is an United States Physician who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission.Gaffney was born June 9, 1946, in Carlsbad, New Mexico....
, Millie Hughes-Fulford
Millie Hughes-Fulford

Millie Elizabeth Hughes-Fulford is an United States medical investigator and molecular biologist who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission....
  • STS-44
    STS-44

    STS-44 was Space Shuttle program mission flown on Space Shuttle Atlantis, that launched November 24, 1991. It was a United States Department of Defense space mission....
Thomas J. Hennen
Thomas J. Hennen

Thomas John Hennen is an United States astronaut who acted as a Payload Specialist on STS-44.Hennen was born August 17, 1952, in Albany, Georgia, and was raised all over the world....
  • STS-42
    STS-42

    STS-42 was a Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Discovery mission with the Spacelab module. Liftoff which was originally scheduled for 8:45 North American Eastern Time Zone January 22, 1992, but the launch was delayed due to weather constraints....
Roberta L. Bondar, Ulf Merbold
Ulf Merbold

Ulf Dietrich Merbold is the first West Germany and second Germany astronaut as well as the first ESA astronaut to fly in space. He also holds the distinction of being the first non-US citizen to reach orbit in a US spacecraft....
  • STS-45
    STS-45

    STS-45 was a 1992 spaceflight using Space Shuttle Atlantis....
Byron K. Lichtenberg
Byron K. Lichtenberg

Byron Kurt Lichtenberg, Sc. D. is an United States engineer who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a Payload Specialist....
, Dirk D. Frimout (first Belgian in space)
  • STS-50
    STS-50

    STS-50 was a United States Space Shuttle mission, the 12th mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia orbiter.Columbia landed at Kennedy Space Center for the first time ever due to bad weather at Edwards Air Force Base caused by the remnants of Hurricane Darby ....
Lawrence J. DeLucas
Lawrence J. DeLucas

Lawrence James "Larry" DeLucas was Payload Specialist on Space Shuttle mission STS-50. He was born on July 11, 1950 in Syracuse, New York, New York, and is currently married with three children....
, Eugene H. Trinh
Eugene H. Trinh

Eugene Huu-Chau "Gene" Trinh is the first Vietnamese-American to travel into outer space....
  • STS-46
    STS-46

    STS-46 was a NASA space shuttle mission launched in 1992....
Franco Malerba
Franco Malerba

Franco Egidio Malerba is an Italy astronaut. He was the first citizen of Italy to travel to space.Married to the former Marie-Aude N?mo. They have one child....
 (first Italian in space)
  • STS-47
    STS-47

    STS-47 was the 50th Space Shuttle mission of the Space Shuttle program....
Mamoru Mohri
Mamoru Mohri

Mamoru "Mark" Mohri Born in Yoichi, Japan, Mohri earned degrees in chemistry from Hokkaido University and a Doctorate from Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1976....
 (first Japanese astronaut on board the Shuttle)
  • STS-52
    STS-52

    STS-52 was a Space Transportation System mission, launched 22 October 1992....
Steven MacLean
Steven MacLean (astronaut)

Steven Glenwood MacLean is a Canada astronaut. He is the current President of the Canadian Space Agency, appointed on September 2, 2008.He was born in Ottawa, Ontario and is married to Nadine Wielgopolski of Hull, Quebec....
  • STS-55
    STS-55

    Space Transportation System 55 was the 55th overall flight of the US Space Shuttle and the 14th flight of Space Shuttle Columbia. This flight was a multinational Spacelab flight involving 88 experiments from eleven different nations....
Ulrich Walter
Ulrich Walter

Ulrich Hans Walter is a Germany physicist/engineer and a former German Aerospace Center astronaut.Walter was born in Iserlohn, Germany. After finishing secondary school there and two years in the Bundeswehr, he studied physics at the University of Cologne....
, Hans Schlegel
Hans Schlegel

Hans Wilhelm Schlegel is a Germany physicist, an ESA astronaut, and a veteran of two NASA Space Shuttle missions.Schlegel, born and raised in Germany, graduated as an international exchange student from Lewis Central High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa before studying physics at RWTH Aachen in his home country....
  • STS-58
    STS-58

    STS-58 shuttle mission of Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on October 18, 1993....
Martin Fettman
  • STS-65
    STS-65

    STS-65 is a Space Shuttle program mission of Space Shuttle Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, July 8, 1994....
Chiaki Mukai
Chiaki Mukai

Chiaki Mukai is a Japanese doctor, a NASDA astronaut and a lecturer at International Space University....
  • STS-67
    STS-67

    STS-67 was a human spaceflight mission using that launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on March 2, 1995....
Samuel T. Durrance
Samuel T. Durrance

Samuel Thornton Durrance is a NASA payload specialist....
, Ronald A. Parise
Ronald A. Parise

Ronald Anthony Parise, Ph.D. was an United States scientist and NASA astronaut and who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist....
  • STS-73
    STS-73

    STS-73 was a Space Shuttle program mission, during October-November 1995....
Fred W. Leslie, Albert Sacco Jr.
  • STS-75
    STS-75

    STS-75 was a United States Space Shuttle mission, the 19th mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia orbiter....
Umberto Guidoni
Umberto Guidoni

Umberto Guidoni is an Italy politician and a former ESA astronaut. He is a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions. He is a Member of the European Parliament....
  • STS-78
    STS-78

    STS-78 was the fifth dedicated Life and Microgravity Spacelab mission for the Space Shuttle program, flown partly in preparation for the International Space Station project....
Jean-Jacques Favier
Jean-Jacques Favier

Jean-Jacques Favier is a French engineer and a former CNES astronaut....
, Robert Brent Thirsk
  • STS-83
    STS-83

    STS-83 was a mission of the United States Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Columbia....
Roger Crouch, Greg Linteris
  • STS-94
    STS-94

    STS-94 was a mission of the United States Space Shuttle Columbia , launched on July 1, 1997....
Roger Crouch, Greg Linteris (Mission reflight)
  • STS-85
    STS-85

    STS-85 was a Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Discovery mission to perform multiple space science packages. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 7, 1997....
Bjarni Tryggvason
Bjarni Tryggvason

Bjarni V. Tryggvason, D.Eng is a retired Canada astronaut who flew on the American Space Shuttle to the Russian Space Station Mir in 1997....
  • STS-87
    STS-87

    STS-87 was a mission of the United States Space Shuttle....
Leonid Kadeniuk
Leonid Kadeniuk

Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk , born 28 January, 1951 in Klishkivtsi, Chernivetska oblast of the Ukrainian SSR) is the first and the only astronaut of independent Ukraine....
 (Ukrainian payload specialist)
  • STS-90
    STS-90

    STS-90 is a mission of the United States Space Shuttle....
Jay C. Buckey
Jay C. Buckey

Dr. Jay Clark Buckey, Jr. is an United States astronaut, having flown aboard one space shuttle mission as a NASA Payload Specialist. Buckey briefly ran for the Democratic nomination to challenge New Hampshire Senator John E....
, James A. Pawelczyk
James A. Pawelczyk

James Anthony "Jim" Pawelczyk is an United States astronaut, and Associate Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology at Penn State....
 (Final Spacelab mission)
  • STS-95
    STS-95

    STS-95 was a Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Discovery mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on October 29, 1998. It was the 25th flight of Discovery and the 92nd mission flown since the start of the Space Shuttle program in April 1981....
Chiaki Mukai
Chiaki Mukai

Chiaki Mukai is a Japanese doctor, a NASDA astronaut and a lecturer at International Space University....
, John H. Glenn (Last American payload specialist)
  • STS-107
    STS-107

    STS-107 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Columbia, launched January 16, 2003. This was a multi-disciplinary microgravity and Earth science research mission with a multitude of international scientific investigations conducted continuously during 16 days in orbit....
Ilan Ramon
Ilan Ramon

Ilan Ramon was a fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and later the first Israeli astronaut. Ramon was the space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107, the fatal mission of Space Shuttle Columbia, where he and six other crew members were killed in a re-entry accident over Southern Texas....
 (first Israeli in space, last payload specialist, killed in the Columbia disaster)

Alternate and back-up (not flown) Payload Specialists

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  • STS-9
    STS-9

    STS-9 was the 6th mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia It was Columbia's last flight until early January of 1986, STS-61C. It was also the last time the old Space Transportation System numbering was used until STS-26 ....
Wubbo Ockels
Wubbo Ockels

Wubbo Johannes Ockels is a The Netherlands physicist and astronaut. In 1985 he participated in a flight of the Space Shuttle program, making him the first and only Dutch citizen in space, until the flight of Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers to the ISS in 2004....
, Michael Lampton
  • STS-41-G
    STS-41-G

    STS 41-G marked the 13th flight of a Space Shuttle and the sixth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. It conducted the second landing at Kennedy Space Center....
Robert Thirsk
Robert Thirsk

Robert Brent "Bob" Thirsk, M.D. is a Canada engineer and a Canadian Space Agency astronaut.Thirsk is from New Westminster, British Columbia and is married to Brenda Biasutti of Montreal, Quebec....
  • STS-51-F
    STS-51-F

    STS-51-F was the eighth flight of Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Challenger, and the nineteenth shuttle flight.The payload with most publicity was the Carbonated Beverage Dispenser Evaluation, which was an experiment where both Coca-Cola and Pepsi tried to make their drinks available to astronauts....
George W. Simon, Diane K. Prinz
  • STS-61-A
    STS-61-A

    STS-61-A was the 22nd Space Shuttle mission. It was a scientific Spacelab mission booked by Germany - hence the payload name D-1 . It was also the last successful mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger....
Ulf Merbold
Ulf Merbold

Ulf Dietrich Merbold is the first West Germany and second Germany astronaut as well as the first ESA astronaut to fly in space. He also holds the distinction of being the first non-US citizen to reach orbit in a US spacecraft....
  • STS-50
    STS-50

    STS-50 was a United States Space Shuttle mission, the 12th mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia orbiter.Columbia landed at Kennedy Space Center for the first time ever due to bad weather at Edwards Air Force Base caused by the remnants of Hurricane Darby ....
Joseph M. Prahl, Albert Sacco
Albert Sacco

Albert Sacco, Jr. is an United States astronaut and chemical engineer who flew as the Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia on shuttle mission STS-73 in 1995....
  • STS-65
    STS-65

    STS-65 is a Space Shuttle program mission of Space Shuttle Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, July 8, 1994....
Jean-Jacques Favier
Jean-Jacques Favier

Jean-Jacques Favier is a French engineer and a former CNES astronaut....
  • STS-73
    STS-73

    STS-73 was a Space Shuttle program mission, during October-November 1995....
David H. Matthiesen, R. Glynn Holt
  • STS-78
    STS-78

    STS-78 was the fifth dedicated Life and Microgravity Spacelab mission for the Space Shuttle program, flown partly in preparation for the International Space Station project....
Pedro Duque
Pedro Duque

Pedro Duque Duque is a Spain astronaut and a veteran of two space missions.Duque earned a degree in aeronautical engineering from the Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid in 1986....
, Luca Urbani
Luca Urbani

Luca Urbani was born May 11, 1957, in Rome, Italy. He was an Italian Space Agency astronaut and was assigned as an alternate payload specialist for mission STS-78....
  • STS-90
    STS-90

    STS-90 is a mission of the United States Space Shuttle....
Alexander W. Dunlap, Chiaki Mukai
Chiaki Mukai

Chiaki Mukai is a Japanese doctor, a NASDA astronaut and a lecturer at International Space University....


Other statistics


Number of flights

# of flights Payload specialist
3 Charles Walker
2 Ulf Merbold
Ulf Merbold

Ulf Dietrich Merbold is the first West Germany and second Germany astronaut as well as the first ESA astronaut to fly in space. He also holds the distinction of being the first non-US citizen to reach orbit in a US spacecraft....
, Byron K. Lichtenberg
Byron K. Lichtenberg

Byron Kurt Lichtenberg, Sc. D. is an United States engineer who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a Payload Specialist....
, Samuel T. Durrance
Samuel T. Durrance

Samuel Thornton Durrance is a NASA payload specialist....
, Ronald A. Parise
Ronald A. Parise

Ronald Anthony Parise, Ph.D. was an United States scientist and NASA astronaut and who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist....
, Chiaki Mukai
Chiaki Mukai

Chiaki Mukai is a Japanese doctor, a NASDA astronaut and a lecturer at International Space University....
, Roger Crouch, Greg Linteris
1 All others


# of payload specialists flights Country
36
Flag of the United States
United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
6
Flag of Germany
Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
5
Flag of Canada
Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
3
Flag of Japan
Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
2
Flag of France
France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
2
Flag of Italy
Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
1
Flag of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south....
1
Flag of the Netherlands
The Netherlands
1
Flag of Mexico
Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
1
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Belgium
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
1
Flag of Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
1
Flag of Israel
Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
Total 60 Payload Specialist flight opportunities


Payload Specialists who trained later as Mission Specialists


All were international Payload Specialists.
  • Marc Garneau
    Marc Garneau

    Captain Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau, Order of Canada, Canadian Forces Decoration, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute is a Canadian astronaut, engineer and politician....
     - flew on STS-97
    STS-97

    was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour....
  • Mamoru Mohri
    Mamoru Mohri

    Mamoru "Mark" Mohri Born in Yoichi, Japan, Mohri earned degrees in chemistry from Hokkaido University and a Doctorate from Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1976....
     - flew on STS-99
    STS-99

    STS-99 was a Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Endeavour mission, that launched on February 11, 2000 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The primary objective of the mission was the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission project....
  • Steven MacLean
    Steven MacLean (astronaut)

    Steven Glenwood MacLean is a Canada astronaut. He is the current President of the Canadian Space Agency, appointed on September 2, 2008.He was born in Ottawa, Ontario and is married to Nadine Wielgopolski of Hull, Quebec....
     - flew on STS-115
    STS-115

    STS-115 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was the first ISS assembly sequence to the ISS after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, following the two successful Return to Flight missions, STS-114 and STS-121....
  • Hans Schlegel
    Hans Schlegel

    Hans Wilhelm Schlegel is a Germany physicist, an ESA astronaut, and a veteran of two NASA Space Shuttle missions.Schlegel, born and raised in Germany, graduated as an international exchange student from Lewis Central High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa before studying physics at RWTH Aachen in his home country....
     - flew on STS-122
    STS-122

    STS-122 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station , flown by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. STS-122 marked the 24th shuttle mission to the ISS, and the 121st space shuttle flight since STS-1....
  • Umberto Guidoni
    Umberto Guidoni

    Umberto Guidoni is an Italy politician and a former ESA astronaut. He is a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions. He is a Member of the European Parliament....
     - flew on STS-100
    STS-100

    STS-100 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. STS-100 installed the ISS Canadarm2 robotic arm....
  • Robert Thirsk
    Robert Thirsk

    Robert Brent "Bob" Thirsk, M.D. is a Canada engineer and a Canadian Space Agency astronaut.Thirsk is from New Westminster, British Columbia and is married to Brenda Biasutti of Montreal, Quebec....
     - scheduled to fly on Soyuz TMA-15
    Soyuz TMA-15

    The Soyuz TMA-15 is a planned 2009 flight to the International Space Station. It will transport 3 members of the Expedition 20 crew to the International Space Station....
  • Bjarni Tryggvason
    Bjarni Tryggvason

    Bjarni V. Tryggvason, D.Eng is a retired Canada astronaut who flew on the American Space Shuttle to the Russian Space Station Mir in 1997....
     - retired in June 2008 without flying again


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