Meet Your Lucky Stars: NASA Announces A New Class Of Astronaut Candidates

"Just as class lets out for the summer across the country, a new one has just been announced."

"NASA has chosen 12 people from a pool of more than 18,300 applicants for two years of training before giving them the title of 'astronaut.'"

"The space agency received a record number of applicants after announcing an open application in December 2015."

"Jasmin Moghbeli, one of the dozen candidates, spoke with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro from Houston's Johnson Space Center, where she'll undertake the training program starting in August."

"Moghbeli, who says she's wanted to be an astronaut since the sixth grade, talked about what kind of candidate it takes to earn the coveted spot."

"Start looking into science, technology, engineering, math, those kinds of fields," the German-born, New York native says. But whatever you do, she says, love it.