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Description: S99-01391 (February 1999) --- Thirty-one 1998 astronaut candidates, including six international mission specialist trainees, pose for a class picture. Front row, left to right: Bjarni V. Tryggvason, Douglas H. Wheelock, Gregory H. Johnson, Patricia C. Hilliard, Marcos Pontes, Garrett E. Reisman, Barbara R. Morgan, Leopold Eyharts, Tracy E. Caldwell and Sunita L. Williams. Middle row: Timothy J. Creamer, Roberto Vittori, Lee J. Archambault, William A. Oefelein, Gregory C. Johnson, Neil W. Woodward, Michael J. Foreman, Christopher J. Ferguson, George D. Zamka and Kenneth T. Ham. Back row: Paolo Nespoli, Stanley G. Love, Hans Schlegel, John D. Olivas, Leland D. Melvin, Michael E. Fossum, Alan G. Poindexter, Gregory E. Chamitoff, Nicholas J. M. Patrick, Steven R. Swanson and Clayton C. Anderson. The international candidates are Eyharts, Nespoli, Schlegel and Vittori, all representing the European Space Agency (ESA); Tryggvason, from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA); and Pontes, the first astronaut candidate representing the Brazilian Space Agency (BSA).
Title: Astronaut class of 1998
Credit: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/behindthescenes/training/html/s99-01391.html
Author: NASA
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