Stargazing Guy

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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13 February 1939 Valery Rozhdestvensky (RKA) Russia.

13 February 1939 Sigmund Jähn (IK) Germany.

13 February 1942 Donald Williams (NASA) US.

13 February 1964 Stephen G. Bowen (NASA) US.

14 February 1947 Pham Tuân (IK) Vietnam.

15 February 1944 Aleksandr Serebrov (RKA) Russia.

15 February 1964 Leland Melvin (NASA) US. Pawsitively the best astronaut portrait ever! For his official NASA portrait in 2007, astronaut Leland Melvin snuck his two best friends forever, Jake and Scout, into NASA’s Johnson Space Centre to pose with him.

Credit: Leland D. Melvin. (2024, February 7). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_D._Melvin

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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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