NASA astronaut corps is more diverse than ever

Majority of Americans Believe Space Exploration Remains Essential

While a minority considers putting astronauts in space a top priority for NASA, more men (25%) than women (11%) consider human exploration of ...

Sally Ride's Astronaut Class Completely Changed NASA's ... - VICE

But the biggest change was more profound: Of these 35 astronauts, three were African American, one was Asian American, and six were women. Among ...

NASA reveals Artemis II crew, the 21st century's first moon astronauts

NASA has selected the four astronauts who, for the first time in five decades, will embark on a journey that only 24 people have ever undertaken ...

Diversity runs deep on Discovery's crew - NBC News

Discovery's seven astronauts are among the most culturally diverse of any space shuttle crew ... He joined the astronaut corps in 1996 and then ...

NASA's astronauts aren't ready for deep space - POLITICO

For one, it will take a special caliber of men and women to confront a very different set of circumstances than the missions in low-Earth orbit ...

Testimony of Mae Jemison - National Academies

There have been six African American women accepted into the NASA astronaut program out of over 338 astronauts total. As of today, May 9, 2019, ...

A New Astronaut Class Begins Its Journey - Obama White House

Summary: Today, NASA released its 2013 astronaut class -- it's first class in three years. The class consists of candidates from diverse ...

How To Become an Astronaut (With Duties and FAQs) | Indeed.com

NASA selects astronauts from a diverse pool of applicants with a wide variety of backgrounds. ... then two years in the NASA Astronaut Corps. It ...

NASA received 12K applications this year to be an Artemis astronaut

This marks the second-highest number of applicants NASA has ever received, surpassed only by its most recent class of astronauts, who graduated ...

How astronaut selection has changed over 60 years of human ...

... NASA was more and more diverse, but it was only in 2013 when the astronaut corps had as many women as men. Fighting gender inequalities ...

NASA Is Sending the First Woman and People of Color to the Moon

While space exploration has seen an increase in diversity, STEM overall remains fraught with inequality. The United Institute for Statistics ...

(PDF) Study of the astronaut's profile evolution since 1961

The gender diversity is also a noticeable change, as only 2 women (over 182 men) flew in space in the first 20 years. ... This paper aims to ...

Engineering Alumna Becomes Newest NASA Astronaut

She was one of 12 newly minted astronauts in the class– 10 Americans and two from the United Arab Emirates– selected from a pool of more than ...

NASA Astronaut Group 8 - Wikipedia

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 ...

Ed Dwight Was Going to Be the First African American in Space ...

Around this time, Kennedy encouraged leaders in all the military branches to work to improve diversity among their officers. When the first ...

NASA may need to hire more astronauts as it returns to the moon ...

As of September, NASA had 44 flight-ready astronauts that had been trained at NASA's Johnson Space Center. That's one of the smallest astronaut ...

Be an Astronaut: NASA Seeks Explorers for Future Space Missions

To date, NASA has selected more than 300 astronauts to fly on ... There are 47 astronauts in the active astronaut corps, and more will ...

The Past, Present and Future of Spaceflight | Science News Learning

Having a crew with diverse scientific backgrounds will help us learn more about space as the scientists (astronauts) will be able to directly observe what they ...

Here Are The Qualifications You Need to Be Among NASA's Next ...

"For the handful of highly talented women and men we will hire to join our diverse astronaut corps, it's an incredible time in human spaceflight ...

SpaceX, NASA Astronaut Victor Glover Discussed Diversity Issues

Though NASA's astronaut corps have become increasingly diverse throughout the years — there is still more work to be done. A 2020 workforce data ...