Product Type: Poster
Audience: Educators, Informal Education, Students
Grade Levels: K-12, Higher Education
Publication Year: 2009
Product Number: NP-2009-02-567-HQ
NASA selects astronauts from a diverse pool of applicants with a wide variety of backgrounds. From the thousands of applications received, only a few are chosen for the intensive Astronaut Candidate training program. Only 321 astronauts have been selected to date. This fact sheet lists those astronauts of Latin-American and/or Spanish descent.
NASA's Hispanic Astronauts Fact Sheet [1.6MB PDF file]
en español [343KB PDF file]