NASA Looks To Small, Flexible Astronaut Corps
HOUSTON - With eight new candidates, NASA intends to sustain the number of U.S. astronauts at 45 to 55 men and women for the foreseeable future, well down from an all-time high of 139 fliers in 2000, when the agency was launching five to six shuttle missions annually and beginning to continuously...
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