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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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29 January 1942 Arnaldo Méndez (IK) Cuba.

29 January 1948 Mamoru Mohri (JAXA).

1 February 1935 Vladimir Aksyonov (RKA) Russia.

1 February 1961 Daniel Tani (NASA) US. With Peggy Whitson (more about her in next weeks post – her birthdate is 9 February 1960), Tani conducted the 100th spacewalk on the International Space Station 18 December 2007, as part of Expedition 16.

3 February 1958 Joe F. Edwards (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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