Come Fly with Us: NASA's Payload Specialist Program

'Come Fly with Us' is the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003.

Not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, these professionals known as 'payload specialists' came from a wide variety of backgrounds and were chosen for an equally wide variety of scientific, political, and national security reasons.

Melvin Croft and John Youskauskas focus on this special fraternity of spacefarers and their individual reflections on living and working in space.