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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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26 February 1928 Anatoly Filipchenko (RKA) Russia.

26 February 1958 Susan J. Helms (NASA) US

29 February 1936 Jack Lousma (NASA) US.

1 March 1969 Liu Wang (CNSA) China.

1 March 1924 Deke Slayton (NASA) US.

2 March 1960 Mikhail Tyurin (RKA) Russia.

3 March 1942 Vladimir Kovalyonok (USSR) Belarus.

3 March 1946 James C. Adamson (NASA) US.

3 March 1949 Bonnie J. Dunbar (NASA) US.

3 March 1949 James S. Voss (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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