NASA Astronaut Group 13
NASA Astronaut Group 13 was a group of 23 astronauts announced by NASA on 17 January 1990. The group name came from its selection of a black cat as a mascot, to play against the traditional unlucky connotations of the number 13.Pilots
- Kenneth Cockrell, U.S. Navy
- Eileen Collins, U.S. Air Force
- William G. Gregory, U.S. Air Force
- James D. Halsell, U.S. Air Force
- Charles J. Precourt, U.S. Air Force
- Richard A. Searfoss, U.S. Air Force
- Terrence W. Wilcutt, U.S. Marine Corps
Mission specialists
- Daniel W. Bursch, U.S. Navy
- Leroy Chiao, Engineer
- Michael R. Clifford, U.S. Army
- Nancy J. Currie, U.S. Army
- Bernard A. Harris, Jr., Physician
- Susan J. Helms, U.S. Air Force
- Thomas D. Jones, U.S. Air Force
- William S. McArthur, U.S. Army
- James H. Newman, Physicist
- Ellen Ochoa, Engineer
- Ronald M. Sega, U.S. Air Force
- Donald A. Thomas, Engineer
- Janice E. Voss, Engineer
- Carl Walz, Physicist
- Peter Wisoff, Physicist
- David Wolf, Medical Doctor, Engineer, Inventor
