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Were you following a weekly list of forthcoming astronaut* birthdays?

Did you share a birthday?!

If not, perhaps it will be you who adds your name to the list?! Or maybe, one of the 100+ additional astronauts who have flown since this original list was pulled together, has beaten you?!

We will now start listing all the newer astronauts, but not in birthday order. We are now using date order, starting with 22 July 2015 and coming up to date with the most recent astronauts, based on the details published by supercluster.com.

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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28 September 1971 Aleksey Ovchinin (RKA) Russia.

22 December 1975 Takuya Ōnishi (JAXA) Japan. Onishi left Earth for the first time on 6 July 2016, on board the new Soyuz MS spacecraft alongside Russian cosmonaut Anatoli Ivanishin (his second trip to space) and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins (also on her first journey).

14 October 1978 Kathleen Rubins (NASA) US.

12 December 1978 Chen Dong (CSNA) China.

19 August 1974 Sergey N Ryzhikov (RKA) Russia. __________________________________________________________________

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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