List of Astronauts By Year of Selection - 1985

1985

June 4 – NASA Group 11 – USA

Pilots: Michael A. Baker, Robert D. Cabana, Brian Duffy, Terence Henricks, Stephen Oswald, Stephen Thorne

Mission Specialists: Jerome Apt, Charles Gemar, Linda Godwin, Richard Hieb, Tamara Jernigan, Carl Meade, Rodolfo Neri Vela, Pierre Thuot

Note: Thorne was killed in the crash of a private airplane before his first flight assignment.

July 19 – NASA Teacher in Space Program – USA

Christa McAuliffe, Barbara Morgan

Note: McAuliffe and Morgan were selected as the prime and backup Payload Specialists for the STS-51-L mission in 1985. McAuliffe was killed in the Challenger Disaster, 73 seconds after lift-off. Morgan would later join the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1998. She flew on the STS-118 mission in 2007, 21 years after Challenger.

August 1 – 1985 NASDA Group – Japan

Mamoru Mohri, Chiaki Mukai, Takao Doi

August – USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer – Group 3

Joseph J. Caretto, Robert B. Crombie, Frank M. DeArmond, David P. Staib, Jr., Teresa M. Stevens

September 2 – GKNII-2/NPOE-7 Cosmonaut Group – Soviet Union

GKNII: Viktor Afanasyev, Anatoly Artsebarsky, Gennadi Manakov

NPOE: Sergei Krikalyov, Andrei Zaytsev

September 18 – CNES Group 2 – France

Claudie André-Deshays, Jean-François Clervoy, Jean-Jacques Favier, Jean-Pierre Haigneré, Frédéric Patat, Michel Tognini, Michel Viso

December 27 - ATLAS-1 - ESA

Dirk D. Frimout