NASA welcomes its newest class of astronauts after two-year training in Houston

HOUSTON, Texas – The Johnson Space Center welcomed 12 new astronauts – 10 Americans and two from the United Arab Emirates – after the class completed a two-year training program through NASA. These astronauts will be assigned missions to the International Space Station and future commercial space stations, and will also focus on missions to the moon in preparation for Mars. Luke Delaney, a retired United States Marine Corps major from DeBary, Florida, said graduating from the program was a dream – for some, a dream that was decades in the making. Ten American astronauts and two United Arab Emirates astronauts recently graduated after completing a two-year training through NASA. When putting on his spacesuit, Delaney said he felt like he made it.