Date: 12/06/2021
<p>Location: Ellington Field
Subject: 2021 NASA Astronaut Candidate Class Announcement 
Photographer: James Blair
</p><p>NASA announced its 2021 astronaut candidate class on Dec. 6, 2021. UAE Astronaut Candidates Nora AlMatrooshi and Mohammad AlMulla are recognized at the event that introduced NASA's 10 candidates: Nichole Ayers, Christopher Williams, Luke Delaney, Jessica Wittner, Anil Menon, Marcos Berríos, Jack Hathaway, Christina Birch, Deniz Burnham, and Andre Douglas.
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NASA’s new astronaut candidates will begin about two years of training in January 2022, after which they 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 Artemis missions to the Moon on NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117536466" class="extiw" title="d:Q117536466"><span title="American photographer">James Blair</span></a>
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