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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25 March 1928 James Lovell (NASA) US.
26 March 1962 Yuri Gidzenko (RKA) Ukraine.
28 March 1946 Wubbo Ockels (ESA) Netherlands.
29 March 1931 Aleksei Gubarev (RKA) Russia.
29 March 1947 Aleksandr Viktorenko (RKA) Kazakhstan.
29 March 1957 Michael Foreman (NASA) US.
29 March 1965 William Oefelein (NASA) US. Which just goes to show that even astronauts have their dark side. Oefelein and his fellow astronaut Lisa Nowak (DOB: 10 May 1963), were both dismissed from NASA (the first ever – so far!).
Oefelein was dismissed on 23 May 2007 following Nowak’s dismissal on 7 March 2007.
The things people do for love.
30 March 1957 Yelena V. Kondakova (RKA) Russia.
31 March 1957 Patrick G. Forrester (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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