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Follow for a weekly list of forthcoming astronaut* birthdays.

Maybe you share a birthday?!

If not, perhaps it will be you who adds your name to the list?!

If you do share a birthday, what does it mean to you?

Do you feel a connection, pride? They take to the skies (on controlled explosions) to improve the world, to explore (to travel to strange new worlds).

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20 May 1944 David M. Walker (NASA) US.

20 May 1951 Thomas Akers (NASA) US.

20 May 1964 Paul W. Richards (NASA) US.

21 May 1942 Robert Springer (NASA) US.

21 May 1945 Ernst Messerschmid (DLR) Germany.

23 May 1958 Thomas Reiter (ESA) Germany.

24 May 1951 Ronald Parise (NASA) US.

24 May 1972 Maksim Surayev (RKA) Russia.

25 May 1931 Georgi Grechko (RKA) Russia.

25 May 1964 Ivan Bella (RKA) Slovakia.

25 May 1965 John D. Olivas (NASA) US.

25 May 1969 Dmitri Kondratyev (RKA) Russia.

26 May 1951 Muhammed Faris (IK) Syria

26 May 1951 Sally Ride (NASA) US. When the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on 18 June 1983, Ride became the first American woman to fly in space, and the third woman overall (after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982). Many of the people attending the launch wore T-shirts bearing the words “Ride, Sally Ride”, lyrics from Wilson Pickett’s song “Mustang Sally”. As the first American woman to fly in space, Ride was subjected to media attention. NASA was still adjusting to female astronauts, and engineers had asked Ride to assist them in developing a “space makeup kit”, assuming it would be something a woman would want on board. They also infamously suggested providing Ride with a supply of 100 tampons for the six-day mission.7

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Thanks to www.supercluster.com for the bios and links.

Also, thanks to www.pillownaut.com for the initial list of birthdays, and the many, many resources on the internet, especially Wikipedia and NASA.      

* = includes cosmonaut, taikonaut, parastronaut, spaceflight participant, space tourist, etc

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