An aerospace engineer and US Air Force fighter pilot, he was the first African American to space, flying four space shuttle missions.

A physician, she was the first mother and the fourth American woman to space. She married Group 9 Astronaut Bill Fisher and served as chief of the Astronaut Office’s space station branch.

A US Navy fighter pilot, he flew on five space shuttle missions, married fellow New Guy Rhea Seddon in 1981, and served as chief of the Astronaut Office and the deputy director of flight crew operations.

A US Air Force fighter and helicopter pilot, he was the first African American to pilot, and later command, the space shuttle. He became the first African American deputy administrator in the agency’s history.

A PhD in astronomy and astrophysics, he flew five space shuttle missions, was married to fellow New Guy Sally Ride, and served as deputy chief of the Astronaut Office.

A PhD in biochemistry, she was the sixth American woman to space, flew five space shuttle missions, and held the record for most flight hours in orbit by any woman in the world until June 2007.

A PhD in physics, he was the second African American to space and was tragically killed in the Challenger disaster.

A US Air Force flight test engineer and test pilot, he was the first Asian American to space and was tragically killed in the Challenger disaster.

A PhD in electrical engineering, she was the second American woman and the first Jewish astronaut to space and was tragically killed in the Challenger disaster.

A PhD in physics, she was the first American woman to space, married fellow New Guy Steve Hawley, and served on the Rogers Commission, investigating the Challenger accident.

A surgeon, she was the fifth American woman to space, flew on three space shuttle missions, and married fellow New Guy Hoot Gibson.

A PhD in geology, she was the third American woman to space and the first American woman to perform a spacewalk.

A physician and Air Force flight surgeon, he became a NASA astronaut in 1980, and played a key role in Challenger’s recovery.

A US Navy pilot who became a NASA astronaut in 1969, he was the first pilot of the space shuttle, led the recovery effort following the Challenger disaster, and was the director of the space shuttle program at NASA Headquarters.

A physician and member of the 1980 astronaut class, he was married to New Guy Anna Lee Fisher.

A US Navy pilot and Apollo astronaut, he flew in space six times and was the first commander of the space shuttle and chief of the Astronaut Office from 1974 to 1987.

A US Air Force captain assigned to NASA in 1964 during the Apollo program, he was rejected from the astronaut corps in 1965 but went on to serve as director of flight operations at Johnson Space Center, selecting the first class of space shuttle astronauts—the New Guys.

A former business executive who served as the sixth administrator of NASA from 1981 to 1986.

A PhD in physiology who joined NASA in 1970, she was the head of the Endocrine and Biochemistry Laboratories at Johnson Space Center, the only woman on the Group 8 astronaut selection board in 1978, and the first woman director of Johnson Space Center.

The legendary NASA flight director who helped create Houston’s Mission Control, he served as director of Johnson Space Center from 1972 to 1982.