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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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19 August 1935 Story Musgrave (NASA) US. In 1996 Musgrave became only the second astronaut to fly on six spaceflights, and he is the only astronaut to fly aboard all five Space Shuttles.

19 August 1946 Charles Bolden (NASA) US.

19 August 1962 Michael Massimino (NASA) US.

20 August 1938 Jean-Loup Chrétien (CNES) France.

22 August 1932 Gerald P. Carr (NASA) US.

23 August 1952 Klaus-Dietrich Flade (DLR) Germany.

23 August 1956 David Wolf (NASA) US.

23 August 1967 Dominic A. Antonelli (NASA) US.

24 August 1946 Richard N. Richards (NASA) US.

24 August 1949 Anna Lee Fisher (NASA) US.

24 August 1960 Steven W. Lindsey (NASA) US.

24 August 1960 Franz Viehböck (Austromir) Austria.

24 August 1962 Mary E. Weber (NASA) US.

24 August 1964 Salizhan Sharipov (RKA) Kyrgyzstan.

25 August 1960 Lee Archambault (NASA) US.

25 August 1965 Andrew J. Feustel (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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