8 score astronaut spots out of 6,300 NASA applicants

Story Highlights Newest class is the 21st selected by NASAChosen candidates were selected from more than 6, 300 applicantsThe class includes the highest percentage of women ever picked CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Just call them "The Great Eight." Thirty-five years after selecting its first class of space shuttle astronauts in 1978 — the "Thirty-Five New Guys"— NASA on Monday introduced the four men and four women who make up the Astronaut Class of 2013. Talk about stiff competition. The eight were selected from more than 6,300 applicants — the highest number since more than 8,000 vied for those 35 slots in 1978. There's an Army doctor who worked covert special operations in Iraq, Afghanistan...