Credit: NASANASA has announced its new astronaut candidate class of 2025, selecting just 10 from a pool of over 8,000 applicants. "I'm honored to welcome the next generation of American explorers to our agency," said acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy. The new inductees are already training for future missions, having begun their regimen in mid-September. Specific skills training involves: "robotics, land and water survival, geology, foreign language, space medicine and physiology, and more," according to NASA. This represents NASA's 24th astronaut class, bringing the total of astronaut candidates NASA has recruited to 370, starting from the original Mercury Seven in 1959.