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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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4 December 1945 Roberta Bondar (CSA) Canada. Bondar is a Canadian neurologist, researcher, and astronaut and is the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist to travel into space. She was on an 8 -day mission, starting on 22 January 1992, on STS-42 (Discovery) with the Spacelab module.

4 December 1952 Ronald Sega (NASA) US.

5 December 1947 Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa (IK) Mongolia. Gürragchaa became the first Mongolian and second Asian to go into space.

5 December 1949 Bruce Melnick (NASA) US.

8 December 1927 Vladimir Shatalov (RKA) Kazakhstan.

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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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