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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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8 July 1935 Vitali Sevastyanov (RKA) Russia.

9 July 1943 John Casper (NASA) US.

10 July 1942 Pyotr Klimuk (IK) Belarus.

11 July 1950 Lawrence J. DeLucas (NASA) US.

12 July 1957 Richard Husband (NASA) US. ‘Rick’ Husband traveled into space twice: as pilot of STS-96 and commander of STS-107. He and the rest of the crew of STS-107 were killed when Columbia disintegrated during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere on 1 February 2003.

The following asteroids were named in memory of the other six members of STS-107: 51823 Rickhusband, 51824 Mikeanderson, 51825 Davidbrown, 51826 Kalpanachawla, 51828 Ilanramon and 51829 Williemccool. True heroes and icons in an age where the words lose their meaning.

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS-107_crew_in_orbit.jpg

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crew_of_STS-107,_official_photo.jpg

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space_Shuttle_Columbia_tribute_poster.jpg

Space is hard.

Per aspera ad astra

(Through hardships to the stars)

13 July 1934 Aleksei Yeliseyev (RKA) Russia.

13 July 1950 George Nelson (NASA) US

14 July 1936 Robert Overmyer (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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