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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 has beaten you?! These astronauts have flown since this original list was pulled together.

We have started listing all the newer astronauts, but not in birthday order. We are now using date order. It starts with 22 July 2015 – see Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? (no.54) – and comes up to date with the most recent astronauts. This is 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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5 February 1976 Andrew R Morgan (NASA) US. Following Morgan’s graduation from West Point in 1998, he commissioned into the US Army as a medical officer. He completed his medical training and then volunteered for the US Army Special Operations Command. He was assigned as a physician at Fort Bragg and worked as a medical team member in the Special Operations Command as well as being part of the US Army Parachute Team as a physician. As part of the special operations command, he deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa before being given a strategic special operations assignment in Washington, D.C. He is married with four children! Talk about a life fully lived.

Credit: https://arsof-history.org/arsof_in_space/index.html

1 July 1977 Jessica U Meir (NASA) US. Meir launched on 25 September 2019, to the ISS onboard Soyuz MS-15, where she served as a flight Engineer during Expedition 61 and 62. On 18 October 2019, Meir and Christina Koch were the first women to participate in an all-female spacewalk.

Meir was included in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020.

Meir (right) and her Soyuz MS-15 crewmates Hazza Al Mansouri (left) and Oleg Skripochka (centre)

Credit: By Mark Sowa – https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/48648821032/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81726905

13 December 1983 Hazza Al Mansouri (MBRSC) UAE.

10 July 1985 Ivan V Vagner (RKA) Russia. As I write this (26 September 2024) Vagner is one of 12 people in Earth orbit! He launched 3 days ago on Soyuz MS-26. This is his second trip to the ISS as a flight engineer on Soyuz MS-16. He spent 195 days between 9 April 2020 and 22 October 2020 on Expedition 62/63.

23 August 1983 Sergey Kud-Sverchkov (RKA) Russia.

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Thanks to www.supercluster.com for the bios and links.

Also, thanks to www.pillownaut.com for the first 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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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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