The wait is (almost) over! Meet America’s #NewAstronauts TOMORROW at 2 p.m. EDT live online from our Johnson Space Center in Houston. After evaluating a record number of applications (18,300+), we will introduce our newest class of astronaut candidates on June 7. Watch live on NASA’s Facebook page! After completing two years of training, the new astronaut candiates could be assigned to missions performing research on the International Space Station, launchign from American soil on spacecraft built by commercial companies and launching on deep space missions on our new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket. Credit: NASA #nasa #newastronauts #astronaut #astronauts #astro #johnsonspacecenter #space #astronautclass #2017 #classof2017 #america