NASA’s 2013 class of astronauts include a diverse group of people from a variety of backgrounds. Get to know the newest batch of U.S. space travelers by visiting the SPACE.com gallery.

From left to right:

First up is 39 year old Astronaut Candidate Josh A. Cassada, Ph. D. from White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Josh is a former Lt. Commander in the U.S. Navy, a physicist and co-founder and CTO of Quantum Opus.

Next is Victor J.Glover. Victor is 37 years old and an active duty Lt. Commander in the U.S. Navy and hails from Pomoma, California. Vic is also an F/A-18 pilot and currently serves as a Navy Legislative Fellow in the U.S. Congress.

Lt. Colonel Tyler N. Hague is 37 years old from Hoxie, Kansas and is a U.S. Air Force pilot and graduate of M.I.T. Nick serves with the Department of Defense as Deputy Chief of Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defect Organization.

NOAA Station Chief Christiana M. Hammock is the first female 2013 candidate on the list. She is 34 years old from Jacksonville, North Carolina and currently serves as National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Station Chief in American Samoa.

U.S. Marine Corps Major Nicole Aunapu Mann is the second female astronaut candidate. Nicole hails from Penngrove, California and is 35 years old. She is also an F/A 18 pilot and serves as an Integrated Product Team Lead at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Patuxent River.

U.S. Army Major Anne C. McClain became an astronaut candidate along with Mann and also serves at Patuxent River. 34 years old she originally comes from Spokane, Washington, flies the OH-58 helicopter and recently graduated from U.S. Test Pilot School.

35 year old Jessica U. Meir, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Harvard School of Medicine. She is from Caribou, Maine and works at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston as the Professor of Anesthesia.

U.S. Army Major Andrew R. Morgan, M.D. is a 35 year old physician specializing in sports medicine, emergency care and has extensive flight surgeon experience. The New Castle, Pennsylvania resident earned his doctorate in medicine from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.

One or more of these very fortunate 2013 U.S. Astronaut Candidates will one day be living and working in space or quite possibly new worlds.