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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 April 1953 Nikolai Budarin (RKA) Russia.

30 April 1957 Duane G. Carey (NASA) US.

1 May 1925 Scott Carpenter (NASA) US.

1 May 1966 Zhang Xiaoguang (CNSA) China.

2 May 1957 Dominic Gorie (NASA) US.

3 May 1949 Albert Sacco (NASA) US.

3 May 1976 Alexander Gerst (ESA) Germany.

4 May 1956 Michael Gernhardt (NASA) US.

4 May 1959 Maurizio Cheli (ESA) Italy.

5 May 1941 Anatoli Levchenko (RKA) Ukraine.

5 May 1949 Oleg Atkov (RKA) Russia.

5 May 1960 Douglas Wheelock (NASA) US.

5 May 1965 Fei Junlong (CSNA) China.

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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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