NASA Astronaut Group 21 eight people, Jessica Meir, Ph.D., Major Nicole Mann, Lt. Commander Josh Cassada, Ph.D., Lt. Colonel Tyler Hague, Cristina Hammock, Major Andrew Morgan, M.D., Lt. Commander Victor Glover, and Major Anne McClain. On April 9, 1959 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the finalists for Astronaut Group 1. This group of seven astronauts, also sometimes known as the "Original Seven" or the "Mercury Seven" were a part of the first human spaceflight program, called Project Mercury. Since the original group, the total number of astronaut groups has grown to 22 as of 2017. The class joined 47 other active
Seven Sleepers they were actually in the cave. In Welsh, a late riser may be referred to as a "saith cysgadur"—seven sleeper—as in the 1885 novel "Rhys Lewis" by Daniel Owen, where the protagonist is referred to as such in chapter 37, p. 294 (Hughes a'i Fab, Caerdydd, 1948). This has the double meaning of one who wakes at seven—well into the working day in a Welsh rural setting. In the some countries people say: "May you sleep like the people of Ephesus". Seven Sleepers In Christian and Muslim tradition, the Seven Sleepers () is the story of a group of youths