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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 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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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 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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    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 13 (the Hairballs) was a group of 23 astronauts announced by NASA on 17 January 1990. The group name came from its selection of a...
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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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    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 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 16 ("The Sardines") was a group of 44 astronauts announced by NASA on May 1, 1996. The class was nicknamed "The Sardines" for being...
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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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    NASA Astronaut Group 6 (the "XS-11", "Excess Eleven") was a group of eleven astronauts announced by NASA on August 11, 1967, the second group of scientist-astronauts...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 15 ("The Flying Escargot") was a group of 23 NASA astronauts announced on December 8, 1994. Group members adopted The Flying Escargot...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 10 (nicknamed "The Maggots") was a group of 17 astronauts that were announced on May 23, 1984 and consisted of seven pilots and ten...
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    and NASA astronaut. He was a flight surgeon at NASA and the medical director at SpaceX before being selected as a candidate for an astronaut at NASA. Menon...
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    As part of the Apollo program by NASA, 24 astronauts flew nine missions to the Moon between December 1968 and December 1972. During six successful two-man...
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    aeronautical engineer, United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He was a member of the crews of Gemini 4 and Apollo 1. After graduating...
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    the rank of captain. In 1962, Young was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut Group 2. He flew on the first crewed Gemini mission (Gemini 3) in 1965,...
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    James McDivitt (category NASA Astronaut Group 2)
    X-15 pilot to be awarded Astronaut Wings. In 1962, McDivitt was selected as an astronaut by NASA as part of Astronaut Group 2. He commanded the Gemini...
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    NASA as one of the Mercury Seven astronauts due to a temporarily high bilirubin count. He was accepted in September 1962 as one of the second group of...
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  • Astronaut Group 2 (United Arab Emirates) Nora Al Matrooshi, Mohammad Al Mulla The two UAE astronauts will begin training alongside the NASA Astronaut...
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    Frank Borman (category NASA Astronaut Group 2)
    Aerospace Research Pilot School. Borman was selected as a NASA astronaut with the second group, known as the Next Nine, in 1962. In 1966, he set a fourteen-day...
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