GordonD Posted January 18, 2018 Author Share Posted January 18, 2018 JANUARY 18TH Vladimir Bugrov (1933) USSR Selected 1966 Worked on the Soviet lunar landing programme Retired 1968 for medical reasons; no flights Anthony Boyle (1941) United Kingdom Selected 1984 Part of the British Army's Skynet team and might have flown on a Shuttle mission but was forced to resign to serve on a committee of inquiry into alleged security leaks in a regiment he used to command. There was no suggestion that he was involved but his role in the investigation meant he had to leave the astronaut training programme five months later Died 25 October 2011 Jeffrey Williams (1958) USA Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) STS-101, 19 - 29 Mat 2000 (9d 20h 9m) Soyuz TMA-8/ISS Expedition 13, 30 March - 29 September 2006 (182d 22h 43m) Soyuz TMA-16/ISS Expeditions 21/22, 30 September 2009 - 18 March 2010 (169d 4h 9m) Soyuz TMA-20M/ISS Expeditions 47/48, 18 March - 7 September 2016 (172d 3h 47m) Total flight time to date 534d 2h 48m Still on active flight status Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 I used to chat regularly to a scientist who was working on ELDEF. He was based in the Dublin Institute of Physics and we used to take the same commuter train to work each morning. That was back in 1982/83. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted January 19, 2018 Author Share Posted January 19, 2018 JANUARY 19TH Byron Knolle (1924) USAF Selected 1962 Was part of a military astronaut group but never flew Retiral date unknown Died 6 July 2012 Aleksander Shchukin (1946) USSR Selected 1977 Trained for a Buran (Soviet Space Shuttle) mission Killed in crash of Su-26M aerobatics plane, 18 August 1988 Was backup on Soyuz TM-4 Information from Spacefacts website 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 JANUARY 20TH Buzz Aldrin (1930) USA Selected 1963 (NASA Group 3) Gemini 12, 11 - 15 November 1966 (3d 22h 24m) Apollo 11, 16 - 24 July 1969 (8d 3h 18m) - Second man on the Moon Total flight time 12d 1h 52m Retired July 1971 Backup on Gemini 10; reassigned as backup on Gemini 9 when the flight crew died in an air crash and the original backups replaced them Also backup on Apollo 8 Jerry Ross (1948) USA Selected 1980 (NASA Group 9) STS-61B, 27 November - 3 December 1985 (6d 21h 4m) STS-27, 2 - 7 December 1988 (4d 9h 5m) STS-37, 5 - 11 April 1991 (5d 23h 32m) STS-55, 26 April - 6 May 1993 (9d 23h 40m) STS-74, 12 - 20 November 1995 (8d 4h 30m) STS-88, 4 - 15 December 1998 (11d 19h 18m) STS-110, 8 - 19 April 2002 (10d 19h 42m) Total flight time 58d 0h 51m Retired January 2012 First man to make seven spaceflights Magomed Tolboyev (1951) USSR (Dagestan) Selected 1983 Trained for a Buran mission but programme was cancelled Retired January 1994; no flights Mohammad Masum (1954) Afghanistan Selected 1988 Named for Soyuz TM-6 but dropped; the official explanation was appendicitis but some sources say it was for political reasons Retired September 1988; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted January 21, 2018 Author Share Posted January 21, 2018 JANUARY 21ST Valentin Yershov (1928) USSR Selected 1967 Was in training for the Soviet lunar landing programme but taken off flight status because he refused to join the Communist Party Retired 1974; no flights Died 15 February 1998 Robert Phillips (1929) USA Selected 1984 (Spacelab 4 Group) - Veterinarian Named for STS-71E; mission cancelled following the Challenger accident Backup on STS-40 Retired 1991; no flights Died 26 February 2013 Valentin Filatyev (1930) USSR Selected 1960 Dismissed April 1963 following an incident in which he and two other cosmonauts were arrested for being drunk and disorderly at a railway station. To protect the image of the space programme, Filatyev was airbrushed out of cosmonaut group photos; when the originals were discovered this led to rumours that he had died during a space flight. Died 15 September 1990 Joseph Tanner (1950) USA Selected 1992 (NASA Group 14) STS-66, 3 - 14 November 1994 (10d 22h 34m) - Spacelab mission ATLAS-3 STS-82 11 - 21 February 1997 (9d 23h 37m) - second Hubble servicing mission STS-97, 1 - 11 December 2000 (10d 19h 57m) - delivered the first set of solar arrays to the International Space Station STS-115, 9 - 21 September 2006 (11d 19h 6m) - delivered truss segment and further solar arrays to the ISS (first assembly flight since the Columbia accident) Total flight time 43d 13h 14m Retired September 2008 Information from Spacefacts website 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Very interesting back stories emerging - especially for the Soviet era cosmonauts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted January 21, 2018 Author Share Posted January 21, 2018 1 hour ago, Eric Mc said: Very interesting back stories emerging - especially for the Soviet era cosmonauts. Glasnost opened a lot of doors with previously secret stuff coming out. Though some of the early researchers seem to miss the fun of the hunt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted January 22, 2018 Author Share Posted January 22, 2018 JANUARY 22ND Thomas Jones (1955) USA Selected 1990 (NASA Group 13) STS-59, 9 - 20 April 1994 (11d 5h 49m) - Space Radar Laboratory 1 STS-69, 30 September - 11 October 1994 (11d 5h 46m) - Space Radar Laboratory 2 STS-80, 19 November - 7 December 1996 (17d 15h 43m) - Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrograph-Shuttle Pallet Satellite II (ORFEUS-SPAS II) STS-98, 7 - 20 February 2001 (12d 21h 20m) - Delivered Destiny laboratory module to the ISS Total flight time 53d 0h 48m Retired September 2001 On STS-80 Jones was due to make two EVAs but these had to be cancelled because the outer airlock hatch could not be opened Jean-Marc Gasparini (1963) France Selected 1990 Candidate for a Shuttle mission but not selected Retired August 1998; no flights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted January 23, 2018 Author Share Posted January 23, 2018 JANUARY 23RD Bill Pogue (1930) USA Selected 1966 (NASA Group 5) Skylab 4, 16 November 1973 - 8 February 1974 (84d 1h 15m) Retired September 1975 Died 3 March 2014 There is an element of confusion about the numbering of the Skylab flights. Officially the launch of the Orbital Workshop itself was designated SL-01, with the three manned missions as SL-02 to -04. However the Press and public tended to ignore the OWS launch and referred only to the manned flights as Skylab 1 to 3. This was not helped by the mission patches, which followed the Press line. Maybe this could have been avoided if NASA had followed the current ISS format and designated the manned missions as 'Expedition 1' etc... Ivan Bachurin (1942) USSR (Ukraine) Selected 1979 Trained for a Buran mission; carried out six test flights with the OK-GLI jet-powered training craft. Retired1992 Died 20 September 2011 Robert Cabana (1949) Selected 1985 (NASA Group 11) STS-41, 6 - 10 October 1990 (4d 2h 10m) - launched Ulysses Solar Polar probe STS-53, 2 - 9 December 1992 (7d 7h 19m) - semi-classified Department of Defense mission STS-65, 8 - 23 July 1994 (14d 17h 55m) - International Microgravity Laboratory 2 STS-88, 4 - 15 December 1998 (11d 19h 18m) - First ISS assembly mission; carried Unity module Total flight time 37d 22h 42m Retired 2004 Kjell Lindgren (1973) USA Selected 2009 (NASA Group 20) Soyuz TMA-17M/ISS Expeditions 44/45, 22 July - 11 December 2015 (141d 16h 9m) Still on active flight status Jack Fischer (1974) USA Selected 2009 (NASA Group 20) Soyuz MS-04/ISS Expeditions 51/52. 20 April - 3 September 2017 (135d 18h 8m) Still on active flight status Information from Spacefacts website 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted January 24, 2018 Author Share Posted January 24, 2018 JANUARY 24TH Bill Readdy (1952) USA Selected 1987 (NASA Group 12) STS-42, 22 - 30 January 1992 (8d 1h 14m) - International Microgravity Laboratory 1 STS-51, 12 - 22 September 1993 (9d 20h 11m) - Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrograph-Shuttle Pallet Satellite I (ORFEUS-SPAS I) STS-79, 16 - 26 September 1996 (10d 3h 18m) - Shuttle/Mir Mission Total flight time 28d 0h 43m Retired 2005 Krasimir Stoyanov (1961) Bulgaria Selected 1987 Backup for Soyuz TM-5, 1988 Retired 1988, no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted January 25, 2018 Author Share Posted January 25, 2018 JANUARY 25TH No astronaut birthdays today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted January 26, 2018 Author Share Posted January 26, 2018 JANUARY 26TH Mario Runco (1952) USA Selected 1987 (NASA Group 12) STS-44, 24 November - 1 December 1991 (6d 22h 50m) - deployed a DoD observation satellite STS-54, 13 - 19 January 1993 (5d 23h 38m) - deployed Tracking & Data Relay Satellite (TDRS 6) STS-77, 19 - 29 May 1996 (10d 0h 39m) - SPACEHAB mission Total flight time 22d 23h 7m Retired June 2002 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted January 27, 2018 Author Share Posted January 27, 2018 JANUARY 27TH - 51st Anniversary of Apollo 1 fire Brian O'Leary (1940) USA Selected 1967 (NASA Group 6) - as a planetary scientist chosen with a view to a potential 1980s Mars mission Retired April 1968 for personal reasons Died 28 July 2011 Jeremy Hansen (1976) Canada Selected 2009 On active status; no flights to date Wang Yaping (1980) China Selected 2010 Shenzhou X, 11 - 26 June 2013 (14d 14h 29m) Was also Backup on Shenzhou IX Still on active status She has the most recent birth date of anybody who has flown in space Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted January 28, 2018 Author Share Posted January 28, 2018 JANUARY 28TH - 32nd Anniversary of Challenger accident John Fabian (1939) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8) STS-7, 18 - 24 June 1983 (6d 2h 24m) - Deployed two communications satellites, also the first flight with an American female astronaut STS-51G, 17 - 24 June 1985 (7d 1h 39m) - Deployed three communications satellites Total flight time 13d 4h 3m Retired 1985 Leonid Kadenyuk (1951) USSR (Ukraine) Selected 1976 STS-87, 19 November - 5 December 1997 (15d 16h 34m) - US Microgravity Payload 4 Retired 1998 Died 31 January 2018 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted January 29, 2018 Author Share Posted January 29, 2018 JANUARY 29TH Ordinard Kolomiytsev (1933) USSR Selected 1967 Retired August 1968; no flights Died 16 July 2012 Arnaldo Tamaya Méndez (1942) Cuba Selected 1978 Soyuz 38, 18 - 26 September 1980 (7d 20h 43m) Retired 1980 Mamoru Mohri (1948) Japan Selected 1985 STS-47, 12 - 20 September 1992 (7d 22h 30m) - Spacelab J-1 STS-99, 11 - 22 February 2000 (11d 5h 38m) - Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Total flight time 19d 4h 8m Retired 2000 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted January 30, 2018 Author Share Posted January 30, 2018 JANUARY 30TH Carol Weaver (1953) USA Selected 1988 Meteorologist with the US Air Force; was considered for a Shuttle flight but mission never took place Retiral date not known Joseph Carretto (1957) USA Selected 1985 Was past of USAF's Manned Spaceflight Engineer group Retired 1988; no flights Kimiya Yui (1970) Japan Selected 2009 Soyuz TMA-17/ISS Expedition 44/45, 22 July - 11 December 2015 (141d 16h 9m) Still on active flight duty Pyotr Dubrov (1978) Russia Selected 2012 On active duty; no flights yet Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 JANUARY 31ST No astronaut birthdays today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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