GordonD Posted February 24, 2018 Author Share Posted February 24, 2018 February 24th Lev Vorobiyov (1931) USSR Selected 1963 Trained for a Soyuz mission which would have tested the rendezvous system for Soviet lunar flights but programme was cancelled Originally chosen for Soyuz 13 in 1973 but dropped because of personal differences between him and his crewmate. Retired June 1974 for political reasons; no flights Died 12 May 2010 Information from Spacefacts website and Encyclopedia Astronautica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Yes - definitely reading. Quite a few of the Soviet cosmonauts seem to have died prematurely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted February 24, 2018 Author Share Posted February 24, 2018 7 hours ago, Eric Mc said: Yes - definitely reading. Quite a few of the Soviet cosmonauts seem to have died prematurely. The Buran program seemed to be particularly jinxed - even though it never flew manned, a lot of the cosmonauts who trained for it died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Probably out of anger and frustration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted February 25, 2018 Author Share Posted February 25, 2018 February 25th No astronaut birthdays today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted February 26, 2018 Author Share Posted February 26, 2018 February 26th Anatoli Filipchenko (1928) USSR Selected 1963 Soyuz 7, 12 - 17 October 1969 (4d 22h 40m) - 'Troika' flight with Soyuz 6 and 8 Soyuz 16, 2 - 8 December 1974 (5d 22h 23m) - Rehearsal flight for Apollo-Soyuz Retired January 1982 William Twinting (1928) USA Selected 1962 as military astronaut (USAF) Retiral date unknown; no flights Eduard Buinovsky (1936) USSR Selected 1963 Retired December 1964 for medical reasons; no flights Dmitri Yuyukov (1941) USSR Selected 1973 Trained for a flight to the military space station 'Almaz' but programme cancelled Retired 1987; no flights Vladimir Khatulev (1947) USSR Selected 1978 Worked on the TKS space station module later adapted as Salyut add-ons Retired 1980; no flights Susan Helms (1958) USA Selected 1990 (NASA Group 13) STS-54, 13 - 19 January 1993 (5d 23h 38m) - Deployed TDRS 6 communications satellite STS-64, 10 - 20 September 1994 (10d 22h 49m) - Carried LIDAR In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE) studying the atmosphere with laser pulses STS-78, 20 June - 7 July 1996 (16d 21h 47m) - Spacelab LMS (Life and Microgravity Sciences) STS-101, 19 - 29 May 2000 (9d 20h 9m) - ISS supply mission in preparation for Expedition 1 later that year STS-102/ISS Expedition 2, 8 March - 22 August 2001 (167d 6h 40m) - landed aboard STS-105 Total flight time 210d 23h 3m Retired July 2002 Joint holder of the EVA duration record (8h 56m) Andrei Fedyayev (1981) Russia Selected 2012 On active status; no flights yet Information from Spacefacts website Also see addition to the post for 7 February - my records wrongly had Konstantin Feoktistov's birthday as today but I discovered the error when I went to write him up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted February 27, 2018 Author Share Posted February 27, 2018 February 27th Robert Crombie (1954) USA Selected 1985 (USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer Group 3) Retired July 1988, no flights Thomas Pesquet (1978) France Selected 2009 (ESA Group 3) Soyuz MS-03/ISS Expeditions 50/51, 17 November 2016 - 2 June 2017 (196d 17h 50m) Still on active flight status Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted February 28, 2018 Author Share Posted February 28, 2018 February 28th Lloyd Anderson (1952) USA Selected 1988 Meteorologist with the US Air Force; was considered for a Shuttle flight but mission never took place Retiral date not known Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted February 28, 2018 Author Share Posted February 28, 2018 February 29th Jack Lousma (1936) USA Selected 1966 (NASA Group 5) Skylab 3, 28 July - 25 September 1973 (59d 11h 9m) - Second manned expedition STS-3, 22 - 30 March 1982 (8d 0h 4m) - Third flight of the Shuttle (first with an unpainted External Tank), carried various experiments. Only flight to land at White Sands. Total flight time 67d 11h 13m Retired 1983 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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