NASA will announce the first class of astronauts in four years who could one day be eligible for missions to the moon and Mars.

The new selection of NASA astronauts will spend two years in training before becoming eligible for flight assignments.

NASA announced its newest class of astronauts Sept. 22 as agency leaders and lawmakers emphasized their intent to return humans to the moon before China.

The intent is not to land on the moon but to perform a flyby, and interested parties can their names added to the mission.

For the first time, NASA’s astronaut candidate class includes someone who has already been to orbit, and is majority women, as the space agency focuses on its goals to send humans back to the Moon and onto Mars.

The class will undergo nearly two years of training before being eligible for space flight assignments to the International Space Station, Moon and to Mars.

NASA has 10 new astronauts chosen from more than 8,000 applicants. Six of them are women, the first time in NASA history that an incoming astronaut class is mostly female. The space agency

NASA has named its new class of astronaut candidates. The space agency introduced the four men and six women who comprise its 2025 trainee group.