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![]() ![]() ![]() Out of around 6,100 applicants for the 2013 class, NASA only selected eight to join their astronaut training program-four of whom are women. NASA only accepts new astronaut trainees every four or five years after putting candidates through a year-and-a-half-long application process, including intensive physical and psychological tests, Fiona MacDonald writes for ScienceAlert. Getting accepted into NASA’s astronaut training program is no small feat. Now, almost 40 years later, NASA’s latest batch of future astronauts is half women, and in a few years they could be among the first people to set foot on Mars. In January 1978, NASA announced that it had offically hired its very first female astronauts. ![]()
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