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At NASAs Kennedy Space Center, the 2004 class of astronaut candidates gather for a photo in front of Space Shuttle Discovery in the Vehicle Assembly Building. Above them are the External Tank and twin Solid Rocket Boosters. The ascans are, in the back row, left to right, Richard Arnold II, Jose Hernandez, Robert Satcher, Thomas Marshburn, Satoshi Furukawa, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Robert Kimbrough and Randolph Bresnik; in the front row, left to right, are James Dutton, Shannon Walker, Joseph Acaba, Naoko Yamazaki, Akahiko Hoshide and Christopher Cassidy. The class of 14 candidates includes three candidates from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency as well as three educator astronauts, who were school teachers chosen from thousands of applicants.