This is very cool.
“In August, the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, native reported for duty at the Johnson Space Center in Houston as part of NASA’s 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class. He was selected as one of 12 candidates from a pool of 18,300 applicants – the largest number of applicants in the space program’s history.”
https://www.ua.edu/news/2017/10/from-ua-grad-to-outer-space-hines-selected-as-astronaut-candidate/