...Bryan will serve as the new interim pastor of First Baptist Church of North Augusta.Bryan, who is currently a mission specialist with the Georgia Baptist Convention, starts at the church on June 3.The pastor previously served at Curtis Baptist...

...Rev. John Bryan will serve as the new interim pastor of First Baptist Church of North Augusta.Bryan, who is a mission specialist with the Georgia Baptist Convention, starts at the church June 3.The pastor previously served at Curtis Baptist...

...the commander, and Robert Curbeam, who will spacewalk three times. The others are pilot William Oefelein, and mission specialists Joan Higginbotham, Nicholas Patrick, Sunita Williams and the European Space Agency's Christer Fuglesang, who...

...international space station. They are commander Eileen Collins, pilot James Kelly, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and mission specialist Stephen Robinson. Other crew members will be named later. The next mission's responsibilities are still uncertain...

...You have to move on, not dwell on the past," said Dr. Jonathan Clark, whose wife Dr. Laurel Clark, was a mission specialist on Columbia. "For us it's to find a new life, a new future. It's a challenge but you can't just quit and...

...payload commander Michael P. Anderson, mission specialist David M. Brown, pilot William C McCool, mission specialist Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist Laurel Clark and Ramon. Many of the Kennedy...

...PTI news agency had calculated exactly when Indians could look to the skies and wave as the space shuttle carrying mission specialist Chawla flew past in the heavens. PTI told readers in southern Bombay and Madras which minute of the day they could...

...more kidney cells from Tulane. The cells will be frozen during the trip up, then placed on the space station. Mission specialists will thaw them and put them into a culture that will allow them to grow. Their progress will be checked three...

...boosters APU: auxiliary power unit ET: external tank MECO: main engine cutoff GLS: ground launch sequencer MS: mission specialist RTLS abort: return to landing site abort ATO: abort to orbit AOA: abort once around (the Earth) CAPCOM: capsule...

...several discussions the past few months trying to achieve the proper tenor for the pregame, said Andrew Thomas, a mission specialist preparing for his fourth flight. "This should be an uplifting and exciting day so we don't dwell on the unpleasantness...