NASA Astronaut Group 8
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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 largest group to that date. The class was the firs
Official group portrait
The six women astronaut candidates pose with the Personal Rescue Enclosure (PRE). The PRE was created as a possible means of transporting astronauts from one Shuttle to another in case of an emergency, but only reached the prototype stage and never flew on any missions.
TFNG T-shirt. These came in red and blue for the two teams into which the TFNG were split.
The first three African Americans to travel into space – Ronald McNair, Guy Bluford and Fred Gregory
NASA Astronaut Group 7
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NASA Astronaut Group 7 was a group of seven astronauts accepted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on August 14, 1969. It was the last group to be selected during the Project Apollo
NASA Astronaut Group 8
…for Program Development, JSC By this time it had been nearly ten years since NASA had last conducted an astronaut selection process in June 1967; NASA Astronaut Group 7 had transferred from the United States Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory in June 1969 without one. The presence of Huntoon, a white woman, and…
Group 7 astronauts. Left to right: Bobko, Fullerton, Hartsfield, Crippen, Peterson, Truly and Overmyer.
The fourteen remaining MOL astronauts in 1968. Back row, left to right: Robert T. Herres, Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr., Robert F. Overmyer, C. Gordon Fullerton, Robert L. Crippen, Donald H. Peterson, Karol J. Bobko and James A. Abrahamson. Front row, left top right: Lachlan Macleay, Richard E. Lawyer, James M. Taylor, Albert H. Crews, Francis G. Neubeck and Richard H. Truly. Absent: Michael J. Adams, John L. Finley and Robert H. Lawrence
The crews for the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests (ALT). Left to right: Fullerton, Haise, Engle and Truly.
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