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45 Years Ago: NASA Announces Ninth Astronaut Group

Charle davers

29 May, 2025

https://ift.tt/RIHfe8K Sixteen of 19 astronaut candidates named on May 29, 1980, and two European trainees as payload specialists pose for photographers in the briefing room in the public affairs facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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