NASA Astronaut Group 15

NASA Astronaut Group 15 ("The Flying Escargot") was a group of 23 NASA astronauts selected in 1994. The group name for these astronaut trainees was originally Slugs because no group was convened the previous year and thus the group was slow in arriving. Group members adopted The Flying Escargot as their moniker, possibly in reference to two members of the group being from France, or in reference to the famous "flying escargot" scene in the movie Pretty Woman. The group featured ten pilots, nine mission specialists, and four international mission specialist trainees.

The Flying Escargot
The astronauts of Group 15
Year selected1994
Number selected23

Three members of this group, Rick Husband, Michael P. Anderson, and Kalpana Chawla, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. These three received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

Pilots

Mission Specialists

International mission specialists

NASA biographies
  1. Scott Altman
  2. Jeffrey Ashby
  3. Michael Bloomfield
  4. Joe F. Edwards, Jr.
  5. Dominic L. Pudwill Gorie
  6. Rick Husband
  7. Steven Lindsey
  8. Pamela Melroy
  9. Susan L. Still-Kilrain
  10. Frederick Sturckow
  11. Michael Phillip Anderson
  12. Kalpana Chawla
  13. Robert Curbeam
  14. Kathryn Hire
  15. Janet Kavandi
  16. Edward Tsang Lu
  17. Carlos Noriega
  18. James F. Reilly
  19. Stephen Robinson
  20. Jean-Loup Chrétien
  21. Takao Doi
  22. Michel Tognini
  23. Dafydd (Dave) Rhys Williams
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