Space nine

A team of nine astronauts from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and Sweden have joined NASA's 1996 candidate group for training at Houston, Texas, primarily for space-station missions. Three have already been flown on the Space Shuttle as payload specialists.

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