Sentence examples for as a payload from inspiring English sources

Neri Vela became the first Mexican in space when he flew on the space shuttle Atlantis as a payload specialist on the STS-61-B crew.

He flew as a payload specialist aboard the Spacelab-J mission of the U.S. space shuttle in September 1992.

However, most of the mission's fame was due to the selection of teacher Christa McAuliffe as a payload specialist.

On January 12 , 1986 he flew aboard the Columbia space shuttle as a payload specialist on the STS-61C mission.

Later that year Sultan was chosen by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASAas as a payload specialist for the STS-51G space shuttle mission.

Ockels flew into space aboard the Challenger space shuttle on Oct. 30, 1985, as a payload specialist on STS-61A, a German D-1 Spacelab mission.

For short duration flights, Stratollite can fly as high as 140,000 feet with a payload capacity of 1,000 pounds.

The U-2, built of aluminum and limited to subsonic flight, can cruise for many hours above 70,000 feet (21,000 metres) with a payload weighing as much as 3,000 pounds (1,350 kg).

The system will be lofted into orbit as part of a payload on a Foton/Bion rocket launcher.

In 1978 ESA selected him as a candidate for a payload specialist seat on the first Spacelab mission.

The spacecraft of this mission, "SELENE-II", is designed as a full payload of H-II launch vehicle, while the former study was designed as a half payload of the same vehicle.