“You are the best of us”: NASA just announced America’s most competitive class of astronauts

More than 18,300 candidates applied to be astronauts in NASA’s latest class—beating the record of 8,000 applicants in 1978—and only 12 got the job. They found out on May 25. Today (June 7), they were presented to the world at a ceremony at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.