NASA Astronaut Group 8
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title:
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 first to include female and minority astronauts; of the 35 selected, six were women, one of them being Jewish American, three were African American, and one was Asian American. Due to the long delay between the last Apollo lunar mission in 1972 and the first flight of the Space Shuttle in 1981, few astr
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1978 American astronaut group
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Astronaut_Group_8
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2008-06-10T23:32:19Z
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2024-08-31T16:30:53Z
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