He is married to fellow NASA astronaut Shannon Walker. Hurley is married to fellow NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg. In 1982, she married fellow NASA astronaut Steve Hawley. He thereby became responsible for NASA astronaut training. She is married to a fellow NASA astronaut, the Australian-born Andy Thomas. The pod is piloted by Pericles, the chimp astronaut. In pursuit of becoming an astronaut, she applied to NASA. He was a Project Gemini and an Apollo program astronaut. The evaluations were similar to those conducted for the NASA astronaut groups. In 2011 NASA opened applications for Astronaut Group 21. The New Shepard makes reference to the first United States astronaut in space, Alan Shepard. She is married to fellow astronaut Robert L. Behnken. During training, Lucy encounters a younger female astronaut named Erin. Hawley married fellow astronaut Sally Ride in 1982. He narrated the Fulldome production "Astronaut" (2006), created for the National Space Centre.