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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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27 November 1952 Jim Wetherbee (NASA) US.

28 November 1951 Barbara Morgan (NASA) US.

“You know, there’s a great sense of pride to be able to be involved in a human endeavor that takes us all a little bit farther. When you look down and see our Earth, and you realize what we are trying to do as a human race, it’s pretty profound.”

https://www.space.com/4249-teacher-astronaut-crewmates-glad-home.html

29 November 1949 Kenneth Cameron (NASA) US.

1 December 1951 Aleksandar Aleksandrov (IK) Bulgaria.

1 December 1967 Konstantin Kozeyev (RKA) Russia.

1 December 1967 Terry Virts (NASA) US.

3 December 1934 Viktor Gorbatko (RKA) Russia.

3 December 1960 Steven Swanson (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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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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