GordonD Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 April 1st William Fisher (1946) USA Selected 1980 (NASA Group 9) STS-51I, 27 August - 3 September 1985 (7d 2h 17m) - Deployed three satellites and retrieved, repaired and relaunched Syncom IV-3, previously deployed on STS-51D but failed to activate Retired 31 January 1991 Was previously married to astronaut Anna Fisher Sergei Volkov (1973) - Russia Selected 1997 Soyuz TMA-12/ISS Expedition 17, 8 April - 24 October 2008 (198d 16h 20m) Soyuz TMA-02M/ISS Expeditions 28/29, 7 June - 22 November 2011 (167d 6h 12m) Soyuz TMA-18M/ISS Expeditions 45/46, 2 September 2015 - 3 February 2016 (181d 23h 48m) Total flight time 547d 22h 20m Retired February 2017 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 2, 2018 Author Share Posted April 2, 2018 April 2nd No astronaut birthdays today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 3, 2018 Author Share Posted April 3, 2018 April 3rd Aleksandr Yablontsev (USSR) 1955 Selected 1989 Selected for Buran (Soviet Shuttle) but programme cancelled Retired 1996; no flights Killed in crash of Sukhoi Superjet 100 during a demonstration flight, 9 May 2012 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 4, 2018 Author Share Posted April 4, 2018 April 4th Vladimir Degtyarov (1932) USSR Selected 1965 Underwent basic cosmonaut training but retired January 1966; no flights Vladimir Isakov (1940) USSR Selected 1967 Trained for a mission aboard the Almaz military space station Retired 1983; no flights Satoshi Furukawa (1964) Japan Selected 1999 Soyuz TMA-02M/ISS Expeditions 28/29, 7 June - 22 November 2011 (167d 6h 12m) Still on active flight status Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 5, 2018 Author Share Posted April 5, 2018 April 5th Judy Resnik (1949) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8) STS-41D, 30 August - 5 September 1984 (6d 0h 56m) Killed in STS-51L Challenger accident, 28 January 1986 (not classed as a space flight as the vehicle did not reach 100km altitude) Franklin Chang-Diaz (1950) USA Selected 1980 (NASA Group 9) STS-61C, 12 - 18 January 1986 (6d 2h 3m) - Deployed Satcom K-1 satellite; also carried Materials Science Laboratory 2 STS-34, 18 - 23 October 1989 (4d 23h 39m) - Deployed the Galileo Jupiter probe STS-46, 31 July - 8 August 1992 (7d 23h 15m) - Deployed EURECA (European Retrieval Carrier) pallet, also the Italian Tethered Satellite; cable jammed STS-60, 3 - 11 February 1994 (8d 7h 9m) - Carried the Wake Shield Facility semiconductor growth experiment; first flight of a Russian (Krikalev) on the Shuttle STS-75, 22 February - 9 March 1996 (15d 17h 40m) - Deployed the Italian Tethered Satellite again but tether broke and satellite lost STS-91, 2 - 12 June 1998 (9d 19h 54m) - Ninth and final docking with Mir; Thomas returned to Earth (no replacement) STS-111, 5 - 19 June 2002 (13d 20h 35m) - Delivered supplies to the ISS; also crew rotation (Expedition 5 up; Expedition 4 down) Total flight time 66d 18h 15m Retired July 2005 Second man to make seven spaceflights (but only the third to make seven launches!) Renate Brümmer (1955) Germany Selected 1987 Backup for STS-55 (Spacelab D-2) Retired 1993; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Coombs Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 17 minutes ago, GordonD said: Second man to make seven spaceflights (but not seven launches!) How does that work? Isn't it like the normal flying ideal of the number of landings equalling the number of take-offs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 5, 2018 Author Share Posted April 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Steve Coombs said: How does that work? Isn't it like the normal flying ideal of the number of landings equalling the number of take-offs? I can see I worded it badly. I've now amended the post. The explanation is that John Young was launched twice on Apollo 16 - the second time from the lunar surface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 April 6th Paulo Nespoli (1957) Italy Selected 1998 STS-120, 23 October - 7 November 2007 (15d 2h 23m) - Delivered the Harmony module to the ISS; also partial crew exchange (Tani up, Anderson down) Soyuz TMA-20/ISS Expeditions 26/27, 15 December 2010 - 24 May 2011 (159d 7h 17m) Soyuz MS-05/ISS Expeditions 52/53, 28 July - 14 December 2017 (138d 16h 56m) Total flight time to date 313d 2h 36m Still on active flight status Michael Barratt (1959) USA Selected 2000 (NASA Group 18) Soyuz TMA-14/ISS Expeditions 19/20, 26 March - 11 October 2009 (198d 16h 42m) STS-133, 24 February - 9 March 2011 (12d 19h 4m) - Delivered Leonardo module to the ISS; final flight of Discovery Total flight time to date 211d 11h 46m Still on active flight status Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 April 7th Donald Holmquest (1939) USA Selected 1967 (NASA Group 6) Retired September 1973; no flights Tim Peake (1972) United Kingdom - Oh, you know who he is! Selected 2009 (ESA Group 3) Soyuz TMA-19M/ISS Expeditions 46/47, 15 December 2015 - 18 June 2016 (185d 22h 11m) Still on active flight status Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 8, 2018 Author Share Posted April 8, 2018 April 8th No astronaut birthdays today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 April 9th Vasily Shcheglov (1940) USSR Selected 1965 Named for a Soyuz flight (repeating the Soyuz 4/5 docking) but mission cancelled Retired for medical reasons October 1972; no flights Died of lung cancer 16 July 1973 Kenneth Cockrell (1950) USA Selected 1990 (NASA Group 13) STS-56, 8 - 17 April 1993 (9d 6h 8m) - Carried the ATLAS-2 Spacelab (Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science) STS-69, 7 - 18 September 1995 (10d 20h 28m) - Deployed and retrieved the Wake Shield Facility for research into semiconductor film growth, and SPARTAN-201 pallet STS-80, 19 November - 7 December 1996 (17d 17h 53m) - Deployed and retrieved ORFEUS-SPAS II and the Wake Shield Facility (third flight) STS-98, 7 - 20 February 2001 (12d 21h 20m) - Delivered the Destiny Module to the ISS STS-111, 5 - 19 June 2002 (13d 20h 35m) - Delivered and retrieved the Leonardo Module to the ISS; also crew exchange (Expedition 5 up; Expedition 4 down) Total flight time 64d 12h 24m Retired February 2006 Tim Kopra (1963) USA Selected 2000 (NASA Group 18) STS-127/ISS Expedition 20, 15 July - 12 September 2009 (58d 2h 50m) - landed aboard STS-128 Soyuz TMA-19M/ISS Expeditions 46/47, 15 December 2015 - 18 June 2016 (185d 22h 11m) Total flight time to date 244d 1h 1m Still on active flight status Serena Auñón-Chancellor (1976) Selected 2009 (NASA Group 20) Still on active flight status; no assignments yet Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 10, 2018 Author Share Posted April 10, 2018 April 10th Eric Sundberg (1945) USA Selected 1979 as USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer Candidate for STS-41E but not assigned Retired 1985; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 11, 2018 Author Share Posted April 11, 2018 April 11th Greg Neubeck (1932) USA Selected 1965 (USAF MOL Group 1) Candidate for a Manned Orbiting Laboratory mission but programme cancelled Retired June 1969; no flights Rick Hauck (1941) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8) STS-7, 18 - 24 June 1983 (6d 2h 24m) - Deployed Anik C-2 and Palapa B-1 comsats; deployed and retrieved the SPAS-01 experiment pallet STS-51A, 8 - 16 November 1984 (7d 23h 44m) - Deployed two comsats then recovered and brought back to Earth two more which had failed on a previous mission STS-26, 29 September - 3 October 1988 (4d 1h 0m) - First post-Challenger flight - deployed Tracking & Data Relay Satellite to improve spacecraft communications Total flight time 18d 3h 8m Retired April 1989 Anatoli Berezovoi (1942) USSR Selected 1970 Soyuz T-5/Salyut 7 Expedition 1, 13 May - 10 December 1982 (211d 9h 4m) - landed aboard Soyuz T-7 Retired October 1992 Died 20 September 2014 Piers Sellers (1955) USA - Born Crowborough, Sussex but became US Citizen Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) STS-112, 7 - 18 October 2002 (10d 19h 58m) - Delivered S1 Truss to the ISS STS-121, 4 - 17 July 2006 (12d 18h 36m) - Expanded ISS Expedition 6 crew to three (Reiter up); had been reduced to two for logistical reasons when Shuttle grounded STS-132, 14 - 26 May 2010 (11d 18h 28m) - Delivered the Russian Rassvet Module to the ISS; Sellers carried a four-inch piece of wood from Newton's apple tree Total flight time 35d 9h 2m Retired June 2011 Died of pancreatic cancer 23 December 2016 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 12, 2018 Author Share Posted April 12, 2018 April 12th - Yuri's Night Russell Rogers (1926) USA Selected 1962 (USAF X-20 Group) Trained to fly the Dyna-Soar spaceplane but programme cancelled Retired December 1963 Died in plane crash at Kadena AFB, Okinawa, 13 September 1967 (ejected but parachute did not open properly) Igor Volk (1937) USSR Selected 1977 Soyuz T-12/Salyut 7 Visiting Flight 2, 17 - 29 July 1984 (11d 19h 14m) Flew the Salyut mission to give him spaceflight experience ahead of piloting the Buran Shuttle but programme was cancelled Retired 1996 Died 3 January 2017 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 13, 2018 Author Share Posted April 13, 2018 April 13th Jean-Jacques Favier (1949) France Selected 1985 (ESA Group 2) STS-78, 20 June - 7 July 1996 (16d 21h 47m) - Spacelab Life & Microgravity Sciences Retired July 1996 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 13, 2018 Author Share Posted April 13, 2018 I have an early start tomorrow and Sunday and won't have time to post the birthdays, so here they are in advance: April 14th Bill Thornton (1929) USA Selected 1967 (NASA Group 6) STS-8, 30 August - 5 September 1983 (6d 1h 8m) STS-51B, 29 April - 6 May 1985 (7d 0h 8m) Total flight time 13d 1h 16m Retired May 1994 Eduard Stepanov (1937) USSR Selected 1965 Involved with the development of Buran; trained for Soyuz and Almaz programmes Retired October 1992; no flights Died 19 October 2015 Anatoli Fyodorov (1941) USSR Selected 1965 Underwent basic cosmonaut training but never assigned to a mission Retired May 1974; no flights Died 21 March 2002 Valentin Lebedev (1942) USSR Selected 1972 Soyuz 13, 18 - 26 December 1973 (7d 20h 55m) - Carried out astrophysical studies using the onboard Orion 2 Space Observatory; observed Comet Kohoutek Soyuz T-5/Salyut 7 Expedition 1, 13 May - 10 December 1982 (211d 9h 4m) - landed aboard Soyuz T-7 Total flight time 219d 5h 59m Retired February 1993 Irina Pronina (1953) USSR Selected 1980 Backup to Svetlana Savitskaya on Soyuz T-7 Retired July 1992; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 13, 2018 Author Share Posted April 13, 2018 April 15th Georgi Beregovoi (1921) USSR Selected 1964 Soyuz 3, 26 - 30 October 1968 (3d 22h 50m) - first manned flight of the Soyuz following Komarov's crash Retired February 1982 Died 30 June 1995 Nikolai Porvatkin (1932) Selected 1967 Underwent basic cosmonaut training but not assigned to a mission Retired April 1983; no flights Died 28 September 2009 Marsha Ivins (1951) USA Selected 1984 (NASA Group 10) STS-32, 9 - 20 January 1990 (10d 21h 0m) - Retrieved the Long Duration Exposure Facility, in orbit since 1984 STS-46, 31 July - 8 August 1992 (7d 23h 15m) - Deployed EURECA (European Retrieval Carrier) pallet, also the Italian Tethered Satellite; cable jammed STS-62, 4 - 18 March 1994 (13d 23h 16m) - Carried United States Microgravity Payload 2 (USMP-2) experiments package STS-81, 12 - 22 January 1997 (10d 4h 55m) - Fifth Shuttle-Mir Mission; crew exchange (Linenger up, Blaha down) STS-98, 7 - 20 February 2001 (12d 21h 20m) - Delivered the Destiny Module to the ISS Total flight time 55d 21h 46m Retired December 2010 John Phillips (1951) Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) STS-100, 19 April - 1 May 2001 (11d 21h 30m) - Delivered the Canadarm manipulator to the ISS Soyuz TMA-6/ISS Expedition 11, 15 April - 11 October 2005 (179d 0h 23m) STS-119, 15 - 28 March 2009 (12d 19h 29m) - Delivered the S6 Truss to the ISS; also crew exchange )Wakata up; Magnus down) Total flight time 203d 17h 22m Retired 2011 Greg Harbaugh (1956) USA Selected 1987 (NASA Group 12) STS-39, 28 April - 6 May 1991 (8d 7h 22m) - DoD mission, the first non-classified. Deployed and retrieved a pallet that observed engine firings from a distance STS-54, 13 - 19 January 1993 (5d 23h 38m) - Deployed TDRS-F satellite to improve communications between spacecraft and the ground STS-71, 27 June - 7 July 1995 (9d 19h 22m) - First Shuttle docking with Mir; crew exchange (Solovyov & Budarin up, Strekalov, Dezhurov & Thagard down) STS-82. 11 - 21 February 1997 (9d 23h 27m) - Second Hubble servicing mission Total flight time 34d 1h 59m Retired March 2001 Mikhail Korniyenko (1960) Russia Selected 1998 Soyuz TMA-18/ISS Expeditions 23/24, 2 April - 25 September 2010 (176d 1h 18m) Soyuz TMA-16M/ISS Expeditions 43/44/45/46, 27 March 2015 - 2 March 2016 (340d 8h 42m) - the 'Year in Space' (with Scott Kelly) - landed aboard Soyuz TMA-18M Total flight time 516d 10h 0m Retired December 2017 Soichi Noguchi (1965) Japan Selected 1996 STS-114, 26 July - 9 August 2005 (13d 21h 32m) Soyuz TMA-17/ISS Expeditions 22/23, 20 December 2009 - 2 June 2010 (163d 5h 32m) Total flight time to date 177d 3h 4m Still on active flight status Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 16, 2018 Author Share Posted April 16, 2018 April 16th David Brown (1956) USA Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) STS-107, 16 January - 1 February 2003 (15d 22h 20m) - US Microgravity Lab 1. Killed when Orbiter Columbia broke up over Texas during re-entry. Flight time shown is up until Loss of Signal Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 17, 2018 Author Share Posted April 17, 2018 April 17th Sergei Vozovikov (1958) USSR Selected 1990 Drowned 11 July 1993 during survival training in the Black Sea Andrei Borisenko (1964) Russia Selected 2003 Soyuz TMA-21/ISS Expeditions 27/28, 4 April - 16 September 2011 (164d 5h 41m) Soyuz MS-02/ISS Expeditions 49/50, 19 October 2016 - 10 April 2017 (173d 3h 15m) Total flight time to date 337d 8h 56m Still on active flight status Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 18, 2018 Author Share Posted April 18, 2018 April 18th Alfred Atwell (1929) USA Selected 1963 as USAF Military Astronaut Presumably would have trained to fly either the X-20 Dyna-Soar or the Manned Orbiting Laboratory Date of retirement unknown Died 13 April 2013 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 19, 2018 Author Share Posted April 19, 2018 April 19th Viktor Zabolotsky (1946) USSR Selected 1984 Retired 1997; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 20, 2018 Author Share Posted April 20, 2018 April 20th Gregory Olsen (1945) USA Selected 2005 (Spaceflight Participant) Soyuz TMA-7, 1 - 11 October 2005 (9d 21h 15m) - Spacecraft carried ISS Expedition 11; Olsen was fare-paying passenger; landed in TMA-6 with Expedition 10 Retired October 2005 Donald Pettit (1955) USA Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) STS-113/ISS Expedition 6, 24 November 2002 - 4 May 2003 (161d 1h 14m) - was aboard the ISS at the time of Columbia accident; landed aboard Soyuz TMA-1 STS-126, 15 - 30 November 2008 (15d 20h 29m) - Delivered and retrieved the Leonardo Module; partial crew exchange (Magnus up, Charmitoff down) Soyuz TMA-03M/ISS Expeditions 30/31, 21 December 2011 - 1 July 2012 (192d 18h 58m) Total flight time to date 369d 16h 41m Still on active flight status Sergei Kostenko (1963) Russia Selected 2005 (Spaceflight Participant) Backup to Gregory Olsen on Soyuz TMA-7 (see above) - went through basic cosmonaut training but did not fly Retired October 2005 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 21, 2018 Author Share Posted April 21, 2018 April 21st Aleksander Leveykin (1951) USSR Selected 1978 Soyuz TM-2/Mir Expedition 2, 5 February - 30 July 1987 (174d 3h 25m) Retired March 1994 Sergei Zalyotin (1962) USSR Selected 1990 Soyuz TM-30/Mir Expedition 28, 4 April - 16 June 2000 (72d 19h 41m) Soyuz TMA-1/ISS Taxi Flight 4, 30 October - 10 November 2002 (10d 20h 53m) - landed aboard Soyuz TM-34 Total flight time 83d 16h 34m Originally retired September 2004; returned to flight status 2011 but retired again for medical reasons May 2014 Soyuz TMA-1 was originally to have carried musician Lance Bass of NSYNC as a fare-paying passenger but financial agreement could not be reached and he was dropped Andrei Babkin (1969) Russia Selected 2010 On active status; no flights yet though currently assigned to Soyuz MS-12/ISS Expeditions 59/60, scheduled for March - September 2019 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 22, 2018 Author Share Posted April 22, 2018 April 22nd John Llewellyn (1933) USA (Born Cardiff; became US Citizen) Selected 1967 (NASA Group 6) Resigned 1968 because he was unable to achieve pilot qualifications Died 2 July 2013 George Simon (1934) USA Selected 1978 Backup for STS-61F/Spacelab 2 Retired 1985; no flights Tamara Zakharova (1952) USSR Selected 1980 Did basic cosmonaut training but not assigned to a mission Retired September 1995; no flights Was married to cosmonaut Yuri Sheffer Daisuke Enomoto (1971) Japan Selection date uncertain (~ 2005) Was to be Spaceflight Participant (fare-paying passenger) on Soyuz TMA-9 but grounded for medical reasons a month before the flight Retired August 2006 Yelena Serova (1976) Russia Selected 2006 Soyuz TMA-14M/ISS Expeditions 41/42, 25 September 2014 - 12 March 2015 (167d 5h 42m) Retired September 2016 Married to cosmonaut Mark Serov In the 53 years of crewed spaceflight (to date of her mission) she is only the FOURTH Soviet/Russian woman to fly Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 23, 2018 Author Share Posted April 23, 2018 April 23rd Virgil "Gus" Grissom (1926) USA Selected 1959 (NASA Group 1) Mercury-Redstone 4/Liberty Bell 7, 21 July 1961 (16m) - Suborbital Gemini 3, 23 March 1965 (4h 52m) - First manned Gemini mission Total flight time 5h 8m Killed in spacecraft fire while training for Apollo 1 mission, 27 January 1967 Oleg Moshkin (1964) Russia Selected 1997 Trained as cosmonaut but retired February 2002 after repeatedly failing his exams Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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