List of Astronauts By Year of Selection - 2009

2009

February 25 – JAXA Group – Japan

Takuya Onishi, Kimiya Yui

May 13 – CSA Group – Canada

Jeremy Hansen, David Saint-Jacques

May 20 – ESA Group – The Shenanigans – ESA

Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy), Alexander Gerst (Germany), Andreas Mogensen (Denmark), Luca Parmitano (Italy), Timothy Peake (United Kingdom), Thomas Pesquet (France)

June 29 – NASA Group 20 – Chumps – USA

Mission Specialists: Serena M. Auñón, Jeanette J. Epps, Jack D. Fischer, Michael S. Hopkins, Kjell N. Lindgren, Kathleen (Kate) Rubins, Scott D. Tingle, Mark T. Vande Hei, Gregory R. (Reid) Wiseman

International Mission Specialists: Jeremy Hansen (Canada), Norishige Kanai (Japan), Takuya Onishi (Japan), David Saint-Jacques (Canada), Kimiya Yui (Japan)

Note: NASA selected the nine members of Group 20 from over 3,500 applicants. The NASA candidates were announced in June, the international astronauts were added later that year. This was the first group of astronauts chosen for the post-Space Shuttle era, and were not trained to fly the Shuttle. Fisher, Tingle, and Wiseman were selected as pilots, but there is currently no distinction between pilots and non-pilots, all are considered Mission Specialists.

September 8 – JAXA Group – Japan

Norishige Kanai