(22 Sep 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: MUST CREDIT NASA
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NASA – MUST CREDIT NASA
Houston, Texas – 22 September 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Kjell Lindgren, Deputy Director, NASA Flight Operations:
"All right let’s get started. he’s a chief warrant officer and experimental test pilot in the United States Army. From Charlottesville, Virginia, Ben Bailey."
2. NASA astronaut candidate Ben Bailey walks on stage
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Norman Knight, Director, NASA Flight Operations:
"She’s a geologist who worked on the Curiosity Mars Rover and Artemis 3 science team. Originally from Sammamish, Washington, Lauren Edgar."
4. NASA astronaut candidate Lauren Edgar walks on stage
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kjell Lindgren, Deputy Director, NASA Flight Operations:
"These ten men and women are your 24th astronaut candidate class
6. Various of astronauts on stage
STORYLINE:
NASA introduced its newest astronauts Monday, 10 scientists, engineers and test pilots chosen from more than 8,000 applicants to help explore the moon and possibly Mars.
For the first time, there were more women than men in a NASA astronaut class. They included a geologist who worked on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, a SpaceX engineer who flew on a billionaire-sponsored spaceflight that featured the world’s first private spacewalk and a former SpaceX launch director.
The group will undergo two years of training before becoming eligible for spaceflight. Acting Administrator Sean Duffy said one of them could become the first person to step on Mars.
It is the 24th astronaut class for NASA since the original Mercury Seven made their debut in 1959. The previous class was in 2021.
Only 370 people have been selected by NASA as astronauts, making it an extraordinarily small and elite group composed mostly of men. The latest additions — revealed during a ceremony at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston — will join 41 active U.S. astronauts currently serving in the corps.
NASA’s flight operations director Norm Knight said competition was stiff and called the newcomers “distinguished” and “exceptional."
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