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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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17 July 1959 Janet L. Kavandi (NASA) US.

18 July 1921 John Glenn (NASA) US. John H. Glenn Jr. one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts for NASA, flew into space twice; first, on 20 February 1962, as the first American to orbit the Earth in Friendship 7 (Mercury-Atlas 6); and then on 29 October 1998 he became the oldest man to fly in space (at the time) by serving as a payload specialist on STS-95 aboard the space shuttle Discovery.

Credit: https://img.cas.sk/cas/900px/1855743.jpg/john-glenn.jpg

Credit: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-95/html/98_06862.html

19 July 1943 Roy D. Bridges (NASA) US

20 July 1941 Vladimir Lyakhov (RKA) Ukraine.

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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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