1985
June 4 – NASA Group 11 – USA
- Pilots: Michael A. Baker, Robert D. Cabana, Brian Duffy, Terence Henricks, Stephen Oswald, Stephen Thorne
- Mission Specialists: Jerome Apt, Charles Gemar, Linda Godwin, Richard Hieb, Tamara Jernigan, Carl Meade, Rodolfo Neri Vela, Pierre Thuot
- Note: Thorne was killed in the crash of a private airplane before his first flight assignment.
July 19 – NASA Teacher in Space Program – USA
- Christa McAuliffe, Barbara Morgan
- Note: McAuliffe and Morgan were selected as the prime and backup Payload Specialists for the STS-51-L mission in 1985. McAuliffe was killed in the Challenger Disaster, 73 seconds after lift-off. Morgan would later join the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1998. She flew on the STS-118 mission in 2007, 21 years after Challenger.
August 1 – 1985 NASDA Group – Japan
- Mamoru Mohri, Chiaki Mukai, Takao Doi
August – USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer – Group 3
- Joseph J. Caretto, Robert B. Crombie, Frank M. DeArmond, David P. Staib, Jr., Teresa M. Stevens
September 2 – GKNII-2/NPOE-7 Cosmonaut Group – Soviet Union
- GKNII: Viktor Afanasyev, Anatoly Artsebarsky, Gennadi Manakov
- NPOE: Sergei Krikalyov, Andrei Zaytsev
September 18 – CNES Group 2 – France
- Claudie André-Deshays, Jean-François Clervoy, Jean-Jacques Favier, Jean-Pierre Haigneré, Frédéric Patat, Michel Tognini, Michel Viso
December 27 - ATLAS-1 - ESA
- Dirk D. Frimout
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