Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Genesis of the Payload Specialist

2. Integrating the Payload Specialists

3. Spacelab, a New Era in Spaceflight

4. Mission to Planet Earth

5. Time to Specialize

6. The Supermission

7. Europe’s Coming Out Party

8. Supersonic in a Paper Airplane

9. The Highest Ground

10. Space Walker

11. First Passenger

12. International Goodwill

13. The Spaceman from Chilpancingo

14. On the Way to Disney World

15. Walking through Fire

Epilogue

Appendix: Summary of Missions Carrying Payload Specialists, 1983–86

Sources

Index