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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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22 January 1955 Thomas David Jones (NASA) US.

23 January 1930 William R. Pogue (NASA) US.

23 January 1949 Robert D. Cabana (NASA) US.

24 January 1952 William Readdy (NASA) US.

26 January 1952 Mario Runco (NASA) US. Despite what you might read on his Supercluster page, he does not appear to be dead.

27 January 1980 Wang Yaping (CNSA) China. If you have ever wondered “how would I wash my hair in space?”, Yaping is your taikonaut – just watch this:

28 January 1939 John M. Fabian (NASA) US.

28 January 1950 David Hilmers (NASA) US.

28 January 1951 Leonid Kadenyuk (RKA) Ukraine.

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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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