CAPE CANAVERAL -- Over 1,000 people were on hand at the Kennedy Space Center Saturday as NASA inducted four of its best and brightest into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Joining the Hall of Fame this year were former astronauts John Blaha; Loren Shriver; Bryan O'Connor, NASA's chief of Safety and Mission Assurance at NASA Headquarters in Washington; and Bob Cabana, center director of NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
The four men joined the ranks of space pioneers such as Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Sally Ride and John Young.
More than 25 Hall of Fame astronauts were in attendance.
The inductions come just a day after NASA held a ribbon cutting for its new space shuttle exhibit wing at the U.S. astronaut hall of fame.
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