NASA Selects Astronaut Class of 2013, Group 21

The astronaut candidates are:

Josh A. Cassada, Ph.D., 39, is originally from White Bear Lake, Minn.
Cassada is a former naval aviator who holds an undergraduate degree
from Albion College, and advanced degrees from the University of
Rochester, N.Y. Cassada is a physicist by training and currently is
serving as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer for Quantum Opus.

Victor J. Glover, 37, Lt. Commander, U.S. Navy, hails from Pomona,
Calif., and Prosper, Texas. He is an F/A-18 pilot and graduate of the
U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards, Calif. Glover holds
degrees from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis
Obispo, Calif.; Air University and the Naval Postgraduate School,
Monterey, Calif. He currently is serving as a Navy Legislative Fellow
in the U.S. Congress.

Tyler N. (Nick) Hague, 37, Lt. Colonel, U.S. Air Force, calls Hoxie,
Kan., home. He is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado
Springs, Colo.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Mass., and the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards, Calif.
Hague currently is supporting the Department of Defense as Deputy
Chief of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization.

Christina M. Hammock, 34, calls Jacksonville, N.C., home. Hammock
holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, N.C. She currently is serving as National
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Station Chief in
American Samoa.

Nicole Aunapu Mann, 35, Major, U.S. Marine Corps, originally is from
Penngrove, Calif. She is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy,
Stanford University and the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, Patuxent
River, Md. Mann is an F/A 18 pilot, currently serving as an
Integrated Product Team Lead at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Patuxent
River.

Anne C. McClain, 34, Major, U.S. Army, lists her hometown as Spokane,
Wash. She is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point,
Va.; the University of Bath and the University of Bristol, both in
the United Kingdom. McClain is an OH-58 helicopter pilot, and a
recent graduate of the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at Naval Air
Station, Patuxent River.

Jessica U. Meir, Ph.D., 35, is from Caribou, Maine. She is a graduate
of Brown University, has an advanced degree from the International
Space University, and earned her doctorate from Scripps Institution
of Oceanography. Meir currently is an Assistant Professor of
Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston.

Andrew R. Morgan, M.D., 37, Major, U.S. Army, considers New Castle,
Pa., home. Morgan is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West
Point, and earned a doctorate of medicine from the Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md. He has experience as
an emergency physician and flight surgeon for the Army special
operations community, and currently is completing a sports medicine
fellowship.




The new astronaut candidates will begin training at NASA's Johnson
Space Center in Houston in August. 

A detail look in the ASCANs (astronaut candidates) will be coming later today.  You can also check out: Astronaut Class 2013