Retro Space HD | NASA Astronaut Group 8 Briefing - August 1979 - Chris Kraft, Ride, Bluford, Onizuka, Resnik @RetroSpaceHD | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 16 hours ago.
Footage from a briefing of Group 8 Astronauts by George Abbey and Chris Kraft on August 1979. Multiple camera angles are shown synchronized side-by-side, to show the astronaut's reaction. Ambient sound was cleaned up to improve levels.

Original footage from NASA. Sound and image cleanup, conversion to original 24 fps frame rate, geometry correction and color restoration by RetroSpace HD.

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NASA Astronaut Group 8 was a group of 35 astronauts announced on January 16, 1978. It was the first NASA selection since Group 6 in 1967, and was the largest group to that date. The class was the first to include female and minority astronauts; of the 35 selected, six were women, one of them being Jewish American, three were African American, and one was Asian American.
Starting with this group, new selections were considered astronaut candidates rather than fully-fledged astronauts until they finished their training. The careers of the Group 8 astronauts would span the entire Space Shuttle Program.
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