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- Any updates on the astronaut selection program? https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/55kw2z/any_updates_on_the_astronaut_selection_program/ 6 comments space
- Brian O'Leary wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the physical properties of the Martian surface and was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in 1967 for a potential manned Mars mission when it was still in NASA's program plan http://www.astronautix.com/o/oleary.html 24 comments space
- The first astronaut class, selected in 1959 for the Mercury Program. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/mercury/mercury_ov/hires/s62_8774.jpg 181 comments space
- John McFall, who has become the first astronaut recruit with a disability, is a British doctor and former Paralympian who lost a leg in a motorbike accident. McFall has been selected by the European Space Agency for a special "parastronaut" program https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221123-british-medic-set-to-train-to-become-first-parastronaut 62 comments space
- Barbara Morgan was the back-up to Christa McAuliffe in the "Teacher in Space" program. After McAuliffe perished in the Challenger disaster, Morgan was inspired to become an astronaut and was eventually selected in 1998. Morgan fulfilled McAuliffe's mission aboard STS-118 in 2007. https://www.biography.com/people/barbara-morgan-241439 22 comments space
- As a boy growing up in Kansas, Nick Hague looked up at the stars. In October, the 42-year-old father‘s dream will come true when he blasts off on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS. Hague was one of eight selected in 2013 for NASA’s astronaut candidate training program. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nasa-astronaut/nick-hague-dreamed-of-the-stars-as-a-boy-now-hes-heading-to-space-iduskbn1jf17y 257 comments space