{"id":796369,"date":"2025-05-29T15:32:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796369"},"modified":"2025-05-29T15:32:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:32:03","slug":"45-years-ago-nasa-announces-ninth-astronaut-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796369","title":{"rendered":"45 Years Ago: NASA Announces Ninth Astronaut Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"hds-attachment-single__caption color-carbon-05 padding-0 p-sm\">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&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: NASA<\/p>\n<p class=\"hds-attachment-single__image_article color-carbon-05 padding-0 p-sm\"><span class=\"line-height-alt-1 color-spacesuit-white\">Read More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" fill=\"none\"><circle class=\"button-primary-circle\" cx=\"16\" cy=\"16\" r=\"16\"\/><path d=\"M8 16.956h12.604l-3.844 4.106 1.252 1.338L24 16l-5.988-6.4-1.252 1.338 3.844 4.106H8v1.912z\" class=\"color-spacesuit-white\"\/><\/svg><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"hds-social-share hds-share\" id=\"social-share-popover\">\n<p><span class=\"font-size--x-small\" id=\"copy-to-clipboard\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-detail\/9373816944-46443992f4-o\/<\/span><button class=\"usa-button usa-button--unstyled\" id=\"copy-url\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Copy URL to clipboard&gt;<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<p>\t<span id=\"alert-label\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Download<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewbox=\"0 0 30 30\" style=\"enable-background:new 0 0 30 30;\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><g><polygon fill=\"#fff\" points=\"27,21 27,25.5 3,25.5 3,21 0,21 0,28.6 2.5,28.6 3,28.6 27,28.6 30,28.6 30,25.5 30,21 \"\/><polygon fill=\"#fff\" points=\"24.6,13.5 22.6,11.6 16.4,17.4 16.4,1.4 13.6,1.4 13.6,17.3 7.5,11.5 5.4,13.5 15,22.5 \"\/><\/g><\/svg><button class=\"usa-button hds-button hds-button-share\" id=\"social-share-button\"><span>Share<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewbox=\"0 0 30 30\" style=\"enable-background:new 0 0 30 30;\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><g><path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M24.8,0c2.2,0.1,4,1.6,4.4,3.7c0.5,2.5-1.2,4.9-3.8,5.3c-1.4,0.2-2.6-0.2-3.6-1.1c-0.1-0.1-0.1,0-0.2,0 c-1.1,0.6-2.1,1.2-3.2,1.7c-2.1,1.1-4.2,2.2-6.2,3.4c-0.8,0.4-1.6,0.8-2.4,1.3c-0.1,0.1-0.1,0.1-0.1,0.2c0,0.4,0,0.7,0,1.1 c0,0.1,0,0.2,0.1,0.2c1.4,0.7,2.7,1.5,4.1,2.2c1.7,0.9,3.4,1.8,5.1,2.7c0.9,0.5,1.7,0.9,2.5,1.4c0.1,0.1,0.2,0.1,0.3,0 c1-0.8,2.2-1.2,3.4-1c2,0.2,3.6,1.8,3.9,3.7c0.4,2.5-1.2,4.8-3.7,5.2c-2.4,0.4-4.8-1.3-5.2-3.7c-0.1-0.4-0.1-0.9,0-1.3 c0-0.1,0-0.1-0.1-0.2c-1.4-0.7-2.7-1.5-4.1-2.2c-1.5-0.8-3-1.6-4.4-2.4c-1.1-0.6-2.2-1.2-3.3-1.8c-0.1,0-0.1,0-0.2,0 c-0.9,0.8-2,1.1-3.2,1.1c-2.1-0.1-3.8-1.7-4.2-3.7C0.4,13.3,2,11,4.5,10.6c1.4-0.2,2.6,0.1,3.7,1c0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.2,0 c2.4-1.3,4.9-2.6,7.3-3.9c1.5-0.8,3-1.6,4.5-2.4c0.1,0,0.1-0.1,0.1-0.2c-0.3-2.3,1.2-4.5,3.5-5C24.1,0.1,24.5,0,24.8,0z\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-detail\/9373816944-46443992f4-o\/?rand=771643\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip; 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