1966: The selection of nineteen new astronauts was publicly announced. Seventeen of the nineteen faced the media for the first time at a press conference at the MSC News Center. On May 9, they commenced fifteen months of formal astronaut training. (Group 5 astronauts. Back row, left to right: Swigert (USAF), Pogue (USAF), Evans, Weitz, Irwin, Carr, Roosa, Worden (USAF), Mattingly, Lousma. Front row, from left to right: Givens, Mitchell, Duke, Lind, Haise (USAF), Engle (USAF), Brand, Bull, McCandless, NASA Image)
