Nasa announces 10 new astronaut recruits
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These 10 people could be Nasa's future astronauts
Nasa has announced 10 new astronaut recruits, who could fly to the International Space Station (ISS) and on future missions to the Moon.
The six men and four women were selected from more than 12,000 applications and went through a tough interview process to get a spot.
One of the chosen recruits, Christina Birch gave her advice for other people wanting to be future astronauts: "If you do the little things well, they add up to something big."
The candidates will now take part in two years of training.
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The group will take part in the basic Astronaut Candidate training programme, which is designed to help recruits get the skills they will need if they are selected for a space flight.
It includes completing military water survival exercises, flying Nasa's T-38 training jets, and becoming scuba-qualified to prepare them for the spacewalk training.
All recruits must complete the training to a good level if they want to be selected as fully-fledged astronauts.
Those who do pass become available for flights to the ISS and to the Moon in the future.
Nichole Ayers, 32, a major in the US Air Force
Marcos Berríos, 37, also a US Air Force major
Christina Birch, 35, a former track cyclist with the US team
Deniz Burnham, 36, a lieutenant in the US Navy reserve
Luke Delaney, 42, a research pilot at Nasa and a retired major in the US Marine Corps
Andre Douglas, 35, a staff member at Johns Hopkins University who has served in the US Coast Guard
Jack Hathaway, 39, a commander in the US Navy
Anil Menon, 45, a flight surgeon for SpaceX who helped launch the first private flight to the International Space Station
Christopher Williams, 38, a medical physicist
Jessica Wittner, 38, a lieutenant commander in the US Navy
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