Say hello to 10 future astronauts! 🧑‍🚀👋 On Monday, Sept. 22, we announced our 2025 class of astronaut candidates. These men and women, chosen from over 8,000 applicants, will embark on two years of training before graduating as flight-eligible astronauts, prepared for missions to low Earth orbit, the Moon, and Mars. Our astronaut candidates have backgrounds in aviation, engineering, and medicine; they've even served as NASA interns and supported our Mars rovers! Visit nasa.gov/astronauts to learn more about the new class. Image descriptions: NASA's 10 new astronaut candidates, wearing blue flight suits with their names and the NASA insignia, stand and smile at the camera. Our 2025 astronaut candidates are: 1) Ben Bailey, a chief warrant officer and Army experimental test pilot from Charlottesville, VA 2) Lauren Edgar, a geologist who worked on the Curiosity Mars rover and Artemis III science team, from Sammamish, WA 3) Adam Fuhrmann, a test pilot and major in the Air Force f...