posted 06-16-2017 05:45 PM               

Following Neil Armstrong's flight path: New astronaut is NASA research pilot

For most of Bob Hines' classmates, the act of putting on a blue flight suit was a new experience.

As NASA revealed on June 7, Hines and 11 other men and women were chosen as the space agency's 22nd group of astronaut candidates since April 1959. A few of the recruits expressed how donning the "NASA blue" was the first time that their astronaut selection began to feel real.

But that wasn't the case for Hines.