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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 January 1942 Vyacheslav Zudov (RKA) Russia.

11 January 1926 Lev Dyomin (RKA) Russia.

12 January 1926 Sergei Revin (RKA) Russia.

13 January 1949 Rakesh Sharma (IK) India. Sharma was the first Indian to go to space. On 3 April 1984, he was on board Soyuz T-11, launched from Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic’s Baikonur Cosmodrome. The Soyuz T-11 spacecraft docked and transferred the three-member Soviet-Indian international crew at Salyut 7 Orbital Station abd returned to Earth on 11 April 1984.

14 January 1943 Shannon Lucid (NASA) China. Lucid has flown in space five times, including a prolonged mission aboard the Russian space station Mir in 1996, and is the only American woman to have stayed on Mir. From 1996 to 2007, Lucid held the record for the longest duration spent in space by an American and by a woman.

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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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