He was the pilot on STS-90 ( 1998 ) and STS-106 ( 2000 ), and was the mission commander on STS-109 ( 2002 ) and STS-125 ( 2009 ).

His first spaceflight, STS-90 in 1998, was a 16-day mission aboard Space Shuttle Columbia dedicated to neuroscience research.

Williams was mission specialist 3 on STS-90 Neurolab ( April 17 to May 3, 1998 ).

STS-90 was a mission of the United States Space Shuttle Columbia.

STS-90 was the first mission to make an Orbital Maneuvering System ( OMS ) assist burn during the ascent.

STS-90 Mission Specialist Kathryn Hire was Kennedy Space Center ’ s first employee to be chosen as an astronaut candidate.

STS-90 Neurolab ( April 17 to May 3, 1998 ) was Linnehan's second Spacelab mission.

In 1998 he was a Payload Specialist aboard NASA Space Shuttle flight STS-90 as part of the Neurolab mission from April 17 to May 3, 1998.

STS-90 also marked Columbia's last daytime landing.

Spacelab in payload bay during STS-90.

Spacelab in Columbia ’ s payload bay during the STS-90 mission.

James Anthony " Jim " Pawelczyk ( born September 20, 1960 ) is an American researcher of physiology and Kinesiology who flew aboard the NASA STS-90 Space Shuttle mission as a Payload Specialist.

The STS-90 flight orbited the Earth 256 times, covered 6. 3 million miles, and logged Williams over 381 hours in space.

Three sevenths of the STS-90 crew ( Williams, Pawelczyk and Buckey ) appeared on the Canadian television series Popular Mechanics for Kids.

STS-90 is the first shuttle flight known to carry a bat on the solid booster.

Hire flew as Mission Specialist-2 on STS-90 Neurolab ( 1998 ) and logged over 381 hours in space.

The STS-90 flight orbited the Earth 256 times, and covered 6. 3 million miles.

In 1998, he served as the payload commander on the STS-90 Neurolab mission.

STS-90 orbited the Earth 256 times, and covered in 381 hours and 50 minutes.

She also served as a back-up payload specialist for the Neurolab ( STS-90 ) mission.

In 1999, Pawelczyk and three other astronauts from the STS-90 crew were guests of State of the Republic of Poland.

Searfoss commanded a seven person crew on the STS-90 Neurolab mission which launched on April 17, 1998.

Completed in 256 orbits, STS-90 landed at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on May 3, 1998.

Jay Clark Buckey, Jr. ( born June 6, 1956, in New York City ) is an American physician and astronaut who flew aboard one space shuttle mission ( STS-90 ) as a Payload Specialist.

That girl last night, what was her name??

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.

Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.

`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.