NASA Selects 35 New Astronauts — NASA
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Keith’s notice: Looks as if this DEIA-oriented web page at NASA.gov must be erased ASAP: “45 Years In the past: NASA Selects 35 New Astronauts On Jan. 16, 1978, NASA introduced the collection of 35 new astronauts, the primary time in additional than 8 years that the company had admitted new astronauts. The collection of the primary elegance of house commute astronauts held historical importance now not simplest on account of its then-record dimension but in addition as a result of, for the primary time, the crowd integrated girls and minorities. Earlier astronaut picks within the Nineteen Sixties consisted of take a look at pilots or scientists, in the ones days the area mainly of white males.“
