Anne McClain

'I couldn't stand, I couldn't breathe, and then there were tears.'

McClain, describing her reaction after learning that she had been picked by NASA as one of eight astronauts to be trained for deep-space exploration missions, including perhaps the agency's first missions to an asteroid and to Mars

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