Nearly all of NASA’s ninth class of astronaut candidates, along with two European trainees, poses for photos in the briefing room in the public affairs facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on July 7, 1980.
Group 9 was announced on May 29, 1980; the candidates would go on to make history in spaceflight and at NASA. For example, Charles Bolden (kneeling at far right) traveled to orbit four times aboard the space shuttle between 1986 and 1994, then became the agency’s first African American administrator in 2009. Franklin Chang-Diaz (fifth from the right, standing) was the first Hispanic American to fly in space and Jerry Ross (middle, standing in the back) was the first person to be launched into space seven times.
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1980年7月7日，NASA第九期宇航员候选人几乎全体成员与两位欧洲受训人员在美国德克萨斯州休斯敦约翰逊航天中心的公共事务大楼简报室内合影留念。
第九期宇航员团队于1980年5月29日正式公布，这批候选人后来在航天飞行史和NASA的发展中都留下了浓墨重彩的一笔。例如，查尔斯·博尔登（照片中最右前排跪姿者）曾于1986年至1994年间四次搭乘航天飞机进入轨道，并于2009年成为NASA首位非裔美国人局长。富兰克林·张-迪亚斯（站立者中从右数第五位）则是首位进入太空的西班牙裔美国人，而杰瑞·罗斯（后排中央站立者）则成为历史上首位七次进入太空的人。
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