In 1995 Duque was selected by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration as an alternate payload specialist for the STS-78 mission and served as a crew interface coordinator on the ground during that mission in June and July 1996.
In 1973 74 he served as a crew member in the first Whitbread race and the first of the five in which he sailed and when he finally won, in Steinlager 2, he did it by being the first competitor ever to win all six of the race's legs.
The Orbital Space Plane, primarily designed to carry people, is on a fast track that could make it available as a station rescue vehicle in five years and ready to serve as a crew hauler a few years later, Mr. O'Keefe said at a news conference.
Glenn approached NASA chief Dan Goldin and pressed to serve as a crew member on a Discovery flight as a test subject for geriatric experiments.
Antatoly Solovyev served as a crew member on three spaceflights prior to EO-19: Mir EP-2, Soyuz TM-9, and Soyuz TM-15.
Another case may have been imported: the infected person, a seaman from Kitakyushu City, served as a crew member on trips along the coast of Africa (Technical Appendix Table 1).
Historian William James has noted that while Nymphe was slightly heavier both in tonnage and weight of shot, the French ship carried 80 more personnel who had been serving as a unified crew for significantly longer than those aboard the British frigate; among Pellew's men were 80 Cornish tin miners pressed into service only a few weeks earlier.
During WWII, Lt. Col. Scott received the Distinguished Flying Cross medal while serving as an air crew member with 15 missions over Germany and France.
Littorio and Vittorio Veneto had a standard crew of 80 officers and 1,750 enlisted men; while serving as a flagship, the crew was increased by a command staff of between 11 and 31 additional officers.
However, when serving as a squadron flagship, the crew was augmented by an additional 13 officers and 66 enlisted men.
