NASA Astronaut Group 15

NASA Astronaut Group 15
Group photo

There were 23 astronauts in the NASA Astronaut Group 15. The group name for these astronaut trainees was originally The Snails because no group was convened the previous year and thus the group was slow in coming. Group members adopted The Flying Escargot as their moniker, possibly in reference to the fact that two members of the group were from France, or in reference to the famous "flying escargot" scene in the movie Pretty Woman[citation needed]. The group featured ten pilots, nine mission specialists, and four international mission specialist trainees.

Contents

Pilots

Mission Specialists

NASA biographies

  1. ^ Scott Altman
  2. ^ Jeffrey Ashby
  3. ^ Michael Bloomfield
  4. ^ Joe F. Edwards, Jr.
  5. ^ Dominic L. Pudwill Gorie
  6. ^ Rick Husband
  7. ^ Steven Lindsey
  8. ^ Pamela Melroy
  9. ^ Susan L. Still-Kilrain
  10. ^ Frederick Sturckow
  11. ^ Michael Phillip Anderson
  12. ^ Kalpana Chawla
  13. ^ Robert Curbeam
  14. ^ Kathryn Hire
  15. ^ Janet Kavandi
  16. ^ Edward Tsang Lu
  17. ^ Carlos Noriega
  18. ^ James F. Reilly
  19. ^ Stephen Robinson

External links

v · d · eNASA Astronaut Group 15, "The Flying Escargot", 1994
Pilots and Commanders
Mission Specialists
International Mission Specialists
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