List of Astronauts By Year of Selection - 1969

1969

August 14 – NASA Group 7 – USA

Karol Bobko, Robert Crippen, Gordon Fullerton, Henry Hartsfield, Robert Overmyer, Donald H. Peterson, Richard Truly.

Note: This group is all USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory astronauts who transferred to NASA after the cancellation of the MOL program in 1969. All flew on early Space Shuttle flights. Truly, in 1989, would become the first astronaut to become NASA Administrator, holding the position until 1992.

September 10 – Civilian Engineer Group – USSR

Anatoli Demyanenko, Valeri Makrushin, Dmitri Yuyukov