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This is a list of astronauts by year of selection: people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies.
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
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 group to that date.
NameBornDiedWatertown, Wisconsin, U.S. January 17, ...Brandenstein graduated from Watertown ...Sacramento, California, U.S. January 16, ...Coats graduated from Ramona High School ...Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S. August 1, ...Covey graduated from Choctawhatchee High ...Orange, Texas, U.S. April 28, 1943Creighton graduated from Ballard High ...List of astronauts by year of selection. Retrieved from " ". This page was last edited on 7 July 2010, at 03:46 (UTC).
Astronaut birthplaces by US state. List of Gemini astronauts. Mercury Seven. NASA Astronaut Corps. NASA Astronaut Group 2. NASA Astronaut Group 3. NASA Astronaut Group 4. NASA Astronaut Group 5. NASA Astronaut Group 6.
The prime crew members selected for actual missions are here grouped by their NASA astronaut selection groups, and within each group in the order selected for flight.
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Jan 13, 2023 · On Jan. 16, 1978, NASA announced the selection of 35 new astronauts, the first time in more than eight years that the agency had admitted new astronauts.
