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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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5 September 1929 Andriyan Nikolayev (RKA), Russia. The first person to make a television broadcast from space, in August 1962 and husband to cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (the first woman to fly in space), who he reportedly kissed goodbye before boarding Vostok 3.

6 September 1946 Bryan O’Connor (NASA), US                 

6 September 1955 Carl Walz (NASA), US. During his trip on the International Space Station in 2001, Walz was able to play a keyboard up there. Certain adjustments had to be made. Whenever Walz played his keys, he kept himself grounded with foot restraints. Also, he’d wind a bungee cord around his legs to hold the instrument in place.

7 September 1939 S. David Griggs (NASA), US. He is credited with conducting the first unscheduled extra-vehicular activity of the space program during Space Shuttle mission STS-51-D.

9 September 1952 Lee Morin (NASA), US                           

9 September 1956 Anatoly Artsebarsky (RKA), Ukraine                 

10 September 1933 Yevgeny Khrunov (RKA), Russia. Khrunov, an early Russian astronaut took part in the first link-up of two manned spacecraft high above the Earth, in Soyuz 5 which was launched on 15 January 1969.

10 September 1945 Richard Mullane (NASA), US. Mullane logged a total of 356 hours in space, as part of three shuttle missions.

10 September 1948 Charles Simonyi (Space Tourist), Hungary. Simonyi became the second Hungarian astronaut, the fifth space tourist, and the only one in history who went twice to space as a space tourist.

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

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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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