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“Today we welcome 10 new explorers, 10 members of the Artemis generation,” NASA Administrator Bill NelsonClarence (Bill) William Nelson10 new astronaut candidates inaugurated at NASA NASA spacewalk delayed due to debris threat This Thanksgiving, skip the political food fights and talk UFOs instead MORE, a former Florida senator, said on Monday at a ceremony in Houston near NASA’s astronaut headquarters.

The group, which is NASA's 23rd class of astronauts, comes to the agency during its focus on Artemis, the effort to return astronauts to the moon in 2025, according to The New York Times.

Two of the members of that class are currently working aboard the International Space Station, the Times added.