NASA on Monday introduced 10 new astronauts, four men and six women selected from more than 8,000 applicants, to begin training for future flights to the , the moon and, eventually, .

"One of these 10 could actually be one of the first Americans to put their boots on the Mars surface, which is very, very cool," Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, also NASA's acting administrator, said in welcoming remarks.

"No pressure, NASA, we have some work to do," he said.

Meet the astronauts

This is NASA's first astronaut class with more women than men. It includes six pilots with experience in high-performance aircraft, a biomedical engineer, an anesthesiologist, a geologist and a former SpaceX launch director.

Among the new astronaut candidates is 39-year-old , a mother of two who flew to

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