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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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9 April 1950 Kenneth Cockrell (NASA) US.

9 April 1963 Timothy L. Kopra (NASA) US.

11 April 1941 Frederick Hauck (NASA) US.

11 April 1942 Anatoly Berezovoy (RKA) Russia.

11 April 1965 Piers Sellers (NASA) England.

12 April 1937 Igor Volk (RKA) Ukraine.

13 April 1949 Jean-Jacques Favier (CNES) Germany.

14 April 1929 William E. Thornton (NASA) US.

14 April 1942 Valentin Lebedev (RKA) Russia.

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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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