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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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30 July 1953 Aleksandr Balandin (RKA) Russia.

30 July 1954 Gregory C. Johnson (NASA) US. For information about another astronaut with a similar name, see Gregory H. Johnson.

30 July 1962 Vladimir Dezhurov (RKA) Russia

1 August 1944 Yuri Romanenko (RKA) Russia.

1 August 1946 Richard Covey (NASA) US.

1 August 1963 Koichi Wakata (JAXA) Japan.

2 August 1934 Valery Bykovsky (RKA) Russia.

2 August 1949 Bertalan Farkas (IK) Hungary.

3 August 1935 Georgi Shonin (RKA) Ukraine.

3 August 1951 Hans Schlegel (ESA) Germany.

3 August 1964 Joan Higginbotham (NASA) US.

4 August 1943 Michael J. McCulley (NASA) US.

4 August 1955 Andrew M. Allen (NASA) US.

4 August 1955 Charles Gemar (NASA) US. __________________________________________________________________

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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