Her shirt features a cartoon of 35 busy astronauts around a shuttle with the acronym TFNG, which stands for “thirty five new guys,” a nickname for the 1978 astronaut class. From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978, allowing them to enroll in a training program that they completed in August 1979.
