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    The NASA Astronaut Corps is a unit of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 2 (nicknamed the "Next Nine" and the "New Nine") was the second group of astronauts selected by the National Aeronautics and Space...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 3 (nicknamed "The Fourteen") was a group of fourteen astronauts selected by NASA for the Gemini and Apollo program. Their selection...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 22 (nicknamed "The Turtles") is a group of twelve NASA astronauts selected in June 2017. They were joined by two Canadian Space Agency...
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    Mercury program that had an astronaut on board from May 1961 to May 1963, and members of the group flew on all of the NASA human spaceflight programs of...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 5 (nicknamed "The Original Nineteen") was a group of nineteen astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. Of the six Lunar Module Pilots...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 8 was a group of 35 astronauts announced on January 16, 1978. It was the first NASA selection since Group 6 in 1967, and was the largest...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 23 (nicknamed The Flies) was announced on December 6, 2021, with the class reporting for duty in January 2022. Twelve astronaut candidates...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 20 (The Chumps) saw the training of nine mission specialists, and five international mission specialists to become NASA astronauts...
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  • NASA Astronaut Group 24 (nickname currently unknown) was announced on March 5, 2024, alongside the graduation of the previous NASA Astronaut Class, NASA...
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    (NASA). The Chief Astronaut serves as head of the NASA Astronaut Corps and is the principal advisor to the NASA Administrator on astronaut training and operations...
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  • The European Astronaut Corps is a unit of the European Space Agency (ESA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as crew members on U.S. and Russian...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 17, were chosen by NASA in 1998 and announced on June 4 of that year. The group of 32 candidates included eight pilots, 17 mission...
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  • Members of the NASA Astronaut Corps hold one of two ranks. Astronaut Candidate is the rank of those training to be NASA astronauts. Upon graduation...
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  • Sidey Other astronaut corps: European Astronaut Corps NASA Astronaut Corps (United States) JAXA Astronaut Corps (Japan) Roscosmos Cosmonaut Corps (Russia)...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 18 (The Bugs[not verified in body]). The group saw the training of seven pilots and ten mission specialists to become NASA astronauts...
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    In 2011 NASA opened applications for Astronaut Group 21. The team was announced in June 2013 after a year and a half long search. With four men and four...
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    Robert D. Cabana (category United States Marine Corps astronauts)
    Space Administration (NASA) and retired NASA astronaut, having flown on four Space Shuttle flights. He served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1994 to...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 4 (nicknamed "The Scientists") was a group of six astronauts selected by NASA in June 1965. While the astronauts of the first two...
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    Jonny Kim (category American astronauts)
    commander, former SEAL, flight surgeon, Naval aviator, physician, and NASA astronaut. Born in Los Angeles, Kim enlisted in the U.S. Navy in the early 2000s...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 7 was a group of seven astronauts accepted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on August 14, 1969. It was...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 14 ("The Hogs") was a group of 24 astronauts announced by NASA on 31 March 1992. The group's name derived from The Muppet Show skit...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 19 was a NASA spaceflight team that saw the training of two pilots, six mission specialists, three educator mission specialists to...
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    William Oefelein (category United States Navy astronauts)
    an American freelance adventure writer and photographer and former NASA astronaut who, on his only spaceflight, piloted the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission...
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    Charles Bolden (category United States Marine Corps astronauts)
    1946) is a former Administrator of NASA, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General, and a former astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions...
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  • Thumbnail for United States astronaut badges
    Defense awarded astronaut badges to military and civilian pilots who flew aircraft higher than 50 miles (80 kilometres). Seven USAF and NASA pilots qualified...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 9 was a group of 19 NASA astronauts announced on May 29, 1980, and completed their training by 1981. This group was selected to supplement...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 12 (the GAFFers) was a group of 15 astronauts announced by NASA on June 5, 1987. Andrew M. Allen (born 1955), U.S. Marine Corps (3...
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    Piers Sellers (category American astronauts)
    In 2011, Sellers retired from the NASA Astronaut Corps. Before joining the astronaut corps, Sellers worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on research...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 11 was a group of 13 NASA astronauts announced on 4 June 1985. Michael A. Baker (born 1953), U.S. Navy (4 flights) STS-43 Atlantis...
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