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Intro music playing.

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Hundreds gathered at Florida's Kennedy Space Center Visitor
Complex May 1 to watch

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as five former Shuttle astronauts were inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame.

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The astronauts inducted were:

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Norm Thagard, the first American astronaut to launch
on a Russian rocket and be a crew member on Russia's Mir space station;

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Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to make a spacewalk;

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Richard Covey, who piloted the first mission after the Challenger
accident and commanded the 1993 Hubble repair mission;

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and the late Dick Scobee, commander of the fateful
Challenger mission.

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Scobee's induction was accepted by his widow, June Scobee Rodgers.

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Frederick Gregory, NASA's Deputy Administrator and the first
African-American to command a space mission, was also inducted.

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He is confident that NASA will continue to keep the
dream of space exploration alive.

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"And I think the opportunity and of course the NASA exploration vision, the nation's vision to head back to the Moon, then Mars

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and beyond, is a kind of motivation and inspiration that encourages young students to look beyond what is the status quo."

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Nearly 20 current Hall of Fame astronauts, such as
John Glenn, Jim Lovell, and Bob Crippen, were on hand to honor the new inductees.