Stargazing Guy

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).

Tell me what you think …

1 September 1961 Christopher Ferguson (NASA), US. The shuttle’s final commander

2 September 1944 Claude Nicollier (ESA), Switzerland                   

2 September 1953 Gerhard Thiele (ESA), Germany                         

2 September 1959 Guy Laliberté (Space Tourist), Canada. Interesting twist about his trip and whether it was a taxable benefit, according to Canadian law. Spoiler alert – it was (at least in 2018)!  As space travel becomes more ordinary, these sorts of issues will start to crop up.

3 September 1944 Sherwood Spring (NASA), US – known as Woody.

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

Also, thanks to www.pillownaut.com for the list of birthdays.      

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

PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and we can share it, remotely, at the same time, and think about the Cosmos.

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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