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NASA Astronaut Group 6 (the "XS-11", "Excess Eleven") was a group of eleven astronauts announced by NASA on August 11, 1967, the second group of scientist-astronauts. Given the lack of post-Apollo program funding, with the Apollo Applications Program being absorbed into the Skylab program, and NASA's existing surplus of astronauts, they did not expect any of the group to fly in space.
May 8 Virgin Galactic Astronaut Pilots Group (Commercial Astronauts) (UK) [40] Frederick W. Sturckow (former NASA astronaut), Michael "Sooch" Masucci. June 3 – Association of Spaceflight Professionals – Group 4 [41] David Ballinger, Jessica Cherry, Michael Gallagher, Jamie Guined, Tanya Markow-Estes, Aaron Persad
The NASA Astronaut Corps is a unit of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ... 1967 Group 6 – "The Excess Eleven (XS-11)"
The countdown for NASA’s next astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is on. Working together with SpaceX, the U.S. space agency is planning to launch its sixth long-duration ...
The four astronauts will be the first to fly NASA’s Orion caps. The four astronauts assigned to fly around the moon for the first time in 50 years met with President Joe Biden on Thursday at the ...
Philip Kenyon Chapman (5 March 1935 – 5 April 2021) was the first Australian-born American astronaut, serving for about five years in NASA Astronaut Group 6 (1967). Education [ edit ]
NASA astronauts Suni Williams (left) Butch Wilmore pose after they arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on April 25, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, ahead of the Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test.
“When the crews go up, they know they could be there for up to a year,” said NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free. NASA astronaut Frank Rubio found that out the hard way when the Russian Space Agency had to rush up a replacement capsule for him and two cosmonauts in 2023, pushing their six-month mission to just past a year.