KSC-05pd-0574

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Russell Romanella (in the foreground), deputy director of ISS and Payload Processing, talks to the 2004 class of astronaut candidates on their tour of the Space Station Processing Facility. In the background is the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Donatello. 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.