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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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18 December 1934 Boris Volynov (RKA) Russia.

18 December 1951 Andrew Thomas (NASA) Australia.

18 December 1956 Reinhold Ewald (ESA) Germany.

19 December 1951 Frederick Leslie (NASA) Panama.

19 December 1957 Michael Fossum (NASA) US. Fossum was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate in June 1998, having applied during almost every selection period since 1988 (7 times) – perseverance does pay off. During his time as an astronaut he flew into space 3 times and carried out 7 extravehicular activities (EVA).

21 December 1945 Millie Hughes-Fulford (NASA) US.

22 December 1961 Yuri Malenchenko (RKA) Ukraine. Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas, while he was 240 miles over New Zealand, on the International Space Station. Malenchenko has been on 6 space missions and has carried out 6 EVAs.

23 December 1937 Karol Bo Bobko (NASA) US.

24 December 1969 Oleg Skripochka (RKA) Russia.

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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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