NASA Picks 15 New Astronauts
For the first time since the Challenger disaster, the space agency named new astronauts today, 13 men and two women, including the first black female and a Coast Guard officer.
The astronaut candidates will report to the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Aug. 17 to begin a year of intensive training before assignment. Five of the new astronauts are civilians, 10 are military officers and two are women, including Mae C. Jemison, 30, a black medical doctor who lives in Los Angeles. Along with fellow candidate Jan Dozier, 33, of Huntsville, Ala., NASA now boasts 14 women in the shuttle corps.
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