NASA-17 astronaut group, 1998

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NASA-17 astronaut group, 1998
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NASA Group 17 - 1998
Credit: www.spacefacts.de

Requirement: pilot, engineer, and scientist astronauts for space shuttle flights. Nickname: The Penguins. Originally called the Dodos by the Sardines, after an extinct flightless bird; they renamed themselves after a flightless bird that eats fish...

AKA: Penguins. Date: 1998.

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Nicollier Swiss test pilot mission specialist astronaut 1978-2007. First Swiss astronaut.

Tryggvason Icelandic-Canadian engineer mission specialist astronaut 1983-2008. CSA; Alternate Payload Specialist to MacLean for STS-52 Mission LAGEOS-2 and Test of the Canadian Space Vision System.

Schlegel German physicist mission specialist astronaut 1987-2011.

Morgan American teacher mission specialist astronaut 1986, 1998-2008. Teacher.

Johnson, Gregory C American test pilot astronaut 1998-2001.

Foreman American test pilot mission specialist astronaut 1998-2010.

Nespoli Italian engineer mission specialist astronaut 1998-2018.

Fossum American test pilot mission specialist astronaut 1998-2017.

Anderson, Clayton American engineer mission specialist astronaut 1998-2011.

Creamer American physicist mission specialist astronaut 1998-2011.

Wheelock American test pilot mission specialist astronaut 1998-on. US Army.

Archambault American test pilot astronaut 1998-2012. Grew up in Bellwood, Illinois. Flew 22 combat missions in F-117s during the Gulf War.

Swanson American computer scientist mission specialist astronaut 1998-2015.

Ferguson American test pilot astronaut 1998-2011.

Poindexter American test pilot astronaut 1998-2010. Grew up in Rockville, Maryland, son of John Poindexter, a US Naval Officer and senior US government official.