Mr. Devey first came to Sprague in 1953 as a Product Specialist in the Field Engineering Department, coming from the Office of Naval Research in Washington, D. C., where he was an electronic scientist engaged in undersea warfare studies.

The four nurses remained the sole women recipients of the Silver Star until: Sergeant Leigh Ann Hester was awarded the Silver Star in 2005 for gallantry during an insurgent ambush on a convoy in Iraq, three nurses who had served in World War I were awarded the Silver Star posthumously in 2007, and Army Specialist Monica Lin Brown was awarded the Silver Star in March 2008 for heroism in the War in Afghanistan.

In this engagement, Staff Sergeant Andrzej Ropel, a Polish immigrant who was at the time not a citizen of the United States, and Specialist William Geraci a native of Cleveland, Ohio, who was recently assigned to 1-87 from the Divisions Long Range Surveillance Detachment, ( LRSD ) led the squad under fire to a ridgeline above the " Halfpipe.

These new journals comprise the Nature Publishing Group, which was created in 1999 and includes Nature, Nature Research Journals, Stockton Press Specialist Journals and Macmillan Reference ( renamed NPG Reference ).

She began astronaut training in 1984, and in 1992 was designated Payload Specialist for the first International Microgravity Laboratory Mission ( IML-1 ).

In 2005, the school was awarded Specialist Schools status by the Government, recognising its excellence in PE, Maths and ICT.

The local sixth form college is Palmer's College, whilst other colleges in Thurrock include South Essex College ( Thurrock Campus ) and Thurrock Adult Community College, and recently the Stanford and Corringham Sixth Form Center was opened, as a joint Sixth Form College between Gable Hall School, Hassenbrook Specialist Technology College and St-Clere's School.

USML-2 was launched in October 1995 on STS-73 with an MSFC scientist, Frederick W. Leslie, as an on-board Payload Specialist.

In 2001 the school became a Specialist Technology College, and in following years it was named as one of the most improved schools in England.

Specialist Five John J. Kedenberg ( BHS ' 64 ) was serving with a long-range reconnaissance team of South Vietnamese irregular troops while a member of the U. S. Army 5th Special Forces Group ( Airborne ).

Doolittle resigned his regular commission on February 15, 1930, and was commissioned a major in the Specialist Reserve Corps a month later, being named manager of the Aviation Department of Shell Oil Company, in which capacity he conducted numerous aviation tests.

Also, the Aplerbeck Hospital in Dortmund transferred mentally and / or physically disabled patients for euthanasia at the Hadamar mental hospital as part of the Action T4 ( an additional 229 children were killed in the " Children's Specialist Department ", which was transferred from Marburg in 1941 ).

Babbitt said his own title for the article was " The Composer as Specialist " ( as it was later published several times, including in Babbitt 2003, 48 – 54 ), and " The editor, without my knowledge and — therefore — my consent or assent, replaced my title by the more ' provocative ' one: ' Who Cares if You Listen?

was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross on 23 October 2008 for his actions on 5 April 2007 when he was a Specialist.

An Israeli flag is adjacent to the name of Payload Specialist Ramon, who was the first Israeli in space.

In 1997, Ramon was selected as a Payload Specialist.

Gregory Bruce Jarvis ( August 24, 1944 – January 28, 1986 ) was an American engineer who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as Payload Specialist.

Jarvis was Payload Specialist 2 on STS-51-L which was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 11: 38: 00 EST on January 28, 1986.

was a Japanese American astronaut from Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C, before losing his life to the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, where he was serving as Mission Specialist for mission STS-51-L.

* 1985 – STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.

* June 24 – STS-51-G: Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.

* Specialist in Crime ( 1972 ) by Ernest Millen, first published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd ( ISBN 0245505075 ).

The Specialist in Education degree was first offered in 1966 and the Doctor of Philosophy in Education degrees were authorized in 1967.

At various times, it was part of the Specialist Division ( hence the factory designation SD1 for the first — and in the event, only — model produced under this arrangement ), Leyland Cars, Rover-Triumph, and the short-lived Jaguar Rover Triumph.

On STS-72, Wakata became the first Japanese Mission Specialist.

Mission Specialist Hoffman conducted the first classroom lesson taught from space on 7 December in support of this objective, covering material on the electromagnetic spectrum and the ASTRO-1 observatory.

On his first mission Mullane served as a Mission Specialist on the crew of STS-41-D which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 30, 1984.

Although Europeans were training for Spacelab Payload Specialist duties, he was the first non government-affiliated person in space.

On August 3, 2005, as a Mission Specialist ( and Flight Engineer ) on STS-114, the first Return to Flight mission following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, Robinson became the first human to perform an in-flight repair to the Shuttle's exterior.

This class was the first group of astronauts to be trained as both Mission Specialist for the Space Shuttle and as potential crewmembers for the ISS.

Nicollier's first spaceflight was as a Mission Specialist on the 8-day Space Shuttle mission aboard Atlantis, called STS-46, in 1992.

STS-62 Commander John Casper, Mission Specialist Pierre Thuot and Mission Specialist Marsha Ivins relaxed on board Columbia for the first half of the day.

During the first shuttle glow observations in the new orbit, Mission Specialist Pierre Thuot reported the glowing effect was much more pronounced at the lower altitude.

Lichtenberg was the first Payload Specialist.

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

Garn became the first sitting member of the United States Congress to fly in space when he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a Payload Specialist during NASA mission STS-51-D ( April 12 – 19, 1985 ).

Specialist joysticks, classed as an assistive technology pointing device, are used to replace the computer mouse for people with fairly severe physical disabilities.

Specialist computer –

* Specialist Chip Gizmo — Camp Swampy's resident computer geek, was named by a write-in contest in 2002.

The computer was named the Specialist, and the magazine detailing its specifications was published in 1987, although it was developed by one hobbyist two years earlier.

* Specialist military applications ( computer programs )

Mission Specialist Cleave used a portable laptop computer to operate and monitor the Fluids Experiment Apparatus

* Specialist Soloman ( formerly known as 110 ), computer specialist.