2017 Astronaut Class
41-year-old NASA astronaut candidate Francisco Rubio waves as he is introduced as one of 12 new candidates, Wednesday, June 7, 2017 during an event at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. After completing two years of training, the new astronaut candidates could be assigned to missions performing research on the International Space Station, launching from American soil on spacecraft built by commercial companies, and launching on deep space missions on NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
