NASA Astronaut Group 17 facts for kids
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The astronauts of Group 17
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| Year selected | 1998 |
| Number selected | 32 |
NASA Astronaut Group 17, were chosen by NASA in 1998 and announced on June 4 of that year. The group of 32 candidates included eight pilots, 17 mission specialists, and seven international mission specialists who became NASA astronauts. They began training in August 1998.
Pilots
- Lee Archambault (2 flights)
- Christopher Ferguson (3 flights)
- Kenneth Ham (2 flights)
- Gregory C. Johnson (1 flight)
- Pilot, STS-125
- Gregory H. Johnson (2 flights)
- William Oefelein (dismissed from the NASA astronaut corps and reassigned to the U.S. Navy, later retiring from military service) (1 flight)
- Alan Poindexter (2 flights)
- George Zamka (2 flights)
Mission specialists
- Clayton Anderson (2 flights)
- Tracy Caldwell (2 flights)
- STS-118 (Endeavour)
- Soyuz TMA-18
- Flight engineer, Expedition 23/Expedition 24
- Gregory Chamitoff (2 flights)
- Timothy Creamer (1 flight)
- Soyuz TMA-17
- Flight engineer, Expedition 22/Expedition 23
- Michael Foreman (2 flights)
- Michael Fossum (3 flights)
- Stanley G. Love (1 flight)
- Leland Melvin (2 flights)
- Barbara Morgan (1 flight)
- John Olivas (2 flights)
- Nicholas Patrick (2 flights)
- Garrett Reisman (2 flights)
- STS-123 (Endeavour; launched to ISS)
- Flight engineer, Expedition 16/Expedition 17
- STS-124 (Discovery; landed from ISS)
- STS-132 (Atlantis)
- Patricia Robertson
- Steven Swanson (3 flights)
- Douglas H. Wheelock (2 flights)
- Mission specialist, STS-120 (Discovery)
- Soyuz TMA-19
- Flight engineer, Expedition 24
- Commander, Expedition 25
- Sunita Williams (2 flights)
- STS-116 (Discovery; launched to ISS)
- Flight engineer, Expedition 14/Expedition 15
- STS-117 (Atlantis; landed from ISS)
- Soyuz TMA-05M
- Flight engineer, Expedition 32
- Commander, Expedition 33
- Commander, Starliner-1 (Future Flight November 2020)
- Neil Woodward
International mission specialists
- Léopold Eyharts, France (2 flights)
- Paolo Nespoli, Italy (3 flights)
- STS-120 (Discovery – ISS mission)
- Soyuz TMA-20
- Expedition 26
- Expedition 27
- Marcos Pontes, Brazil (1 flight) (first Brazilian in space)
- Soyuz TMA-8 (launched only)
- Soyuz TMA-7 (landed only)
- Expedition 13, International Space Station (9 days only)
- Hans Schlegel, Germany (2 flights)
- Robert Thirsk, Canada (2 flights)
- Bjarni Tryggvason, Canada (1 flight)
- Roberto Vittori (Italy) (3 flights)
- Soyuz TM-34 (launched only)
- Soyuz TM-33 (landed only)
- Soyuz TMA-6 (launched only)
- Expedition 11 (10 days only)
- Soyuz TMA-5 (landed only)
- Mission Specialist, STS-134 (Endeavour)
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