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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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8 November 1936 Edward Gibson (NASA) US.

8 November 1947 Margaret Seddon (NASA) US. Seddon became the first female surgeon to go into space on Shuttle mission, STS- 51D Discovery on 12 April 1985.

8 November 1948 Dale Gardner (NASA) US.

Gardner, having just completed the major portion of his second extravehicular activity (EVA) period in three days, holds up a “For Sale” sign refering to the two satellites, Palapa B-2 and Westar 6 that he and Astronaut Joseph P. Allen IV (reflected in Gardner’s helmet visor) had retrieved from orbit after their Payload Assist Modules (PAM) failed to fire. A portion of each of two recovered satellites is in the lower right corner, with Westar 6 nearer Discovery’s aft.

Caption and image credit: NASA

10 November 1933 Ronald Evans (NASA) US. Evans, of the 24 astronauts to have flown to the Moon, is one of the 12 people who didn’t land on it. As the command Module pilot aboard Apollo 17 in December 1972 it was his job to remain in lunar orbit while his fellow astronauts, Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon’s surface.

11 November 1946 Vladimir Solovyov (RKA) Russia.

11 November 1970 G. Reid Wiseman (NASA) US. Wiseman served as Flight Engineer aboard the International Space Station for Expedition 41 from 28 May through 10 November of 2014. On 3 April 2023, Wiseman was selected as the crew commander for the Artemis II mission, which is planned to pass by the Moon no earlier than November 2024. He will be joined by NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

12 November 1937 Richard Truly (NASA) US. Truly was the eighth administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1989 to 1992. He was the first former astronaut to head the space agency.

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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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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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