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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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24 June 1946 Ellison Onizuka (NASA) US. Onizuka was an American astronaut and engineer from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C (on 24 January 1985). He died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, on which he was serving as Mission Specialist for mission STS-51-L (on 28 January 1986).

Space is hard and the people who do mighty things risk their lives for science, humanity and the exploration of space.

Ad astra per aspera.

26 June 1925 Pavel Belyayev (RKA) Russia.

26 June 1952 William Pailes (NASA) US.

26 June 1956 Bernard A. Harris (NASA) US.

27 June 1937 Joseph P. Allen (NASA) US.

27 June 1951 Sidney M. Gutierrez (NASA) US.

27 June 1956 Sultan Salman Al Saud (ARABSAT) Saudi Arabia.

28 June 1946 John M. Lounge (NASA) US.

29 June 1955 Charles Precourt (NASA) US.

29 June 1962 George D. Zamka (NASA) US.

30 June 1951 Stephen Oswald (NASA) US.

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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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In the meantime, take care of yourself and if you can, someone else, too, because as Adam Smith said, “we naturally desire not only to be loved but to be lovely”.

Remember, hope lives here.

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