GordonD Posted May 25, 2018 Author Share Posted May 25, 2018 May 25th Georgi Grechko (1931) USSR Selected 1968 Soyuz 17/Salyut 4 Expedition 1, 10 January - 9 February 1975 (29d 13h 19m) Soyuz 26/Salyut 6 Expedition 1, 10 December 1977 - 16 March 1978 (96d 10h 0m) - Landed aboard Soyuz 27 Soyuz T-14/Salyut 7 Visiting Flight 3, 17 - 26 September 1985 (8d 21h 13m) - Landed aboard Soyuz T-13 after inspecting repairs carried out by Expedition 4 crew Total flight time 134d 20h 32m Retired March 1992 Died 8 April 2017 John Olivas (1966) USA Selected 1998 (NASA Group 17) STS-117, 8 - 22 June 2007 (13d 20h 11m) - Delivered S3/S4 Truss and solar arrays to the ISS; also partial crew exchange (Anderson up, Williams down) STS-128, 29 August - 12 September 2009 (13d 20h 54m) - Delivered equipment and supplies to the ISS; also partial crew exchange (Stott up, Kopra down) Total flight time 27d 17h 4m Retired May 2010 Dmitri Kondratiyev (1969) Russia Selected 1997 Soyuz TMA-20/ISS Expeditions 26/27, 15 December 2010 - 24 May 2011 (159d 7h 17m) Retired July 2012 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 26, 2018 Author Share Posted May 26, 2018 May 26th Muhammed Faris (1951) Syria Selected 1985 Soyuz TM-3/Mir Visiting Flight 1, 22 - 30 July 1987 (7d 23h 4m) - Also partial crew exchange (Aleksandrov up; Viktorenko down; landed aboard Soyuz TM-2) Retired July 1987 In August 2012 defected from Syrian army and fled to Turkey Sally Ride (1951) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8 ) STS-7, 18 - 24 June 1983 (6d 2h 24m) - Deployed two comsats. First American woman in space; first crew of five STS-41G, 5 - 13 October 1984 (8d 5h 23m) - Deployed Earth Radiation Budget Satellite; first flight to carry two female astronauts Total flight time 14d 7h 47m Retired August 1987 Member of the Presidential Commissions that investigated the Challenger and Columbia accidents (only person to serve on both) Died of pancreatic cancer 23 July 2012 Previously married to astronaut Steve Hawley; after her death revealed to be in a same-sex relationship; only astronaut to date to be identified as LGBT Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 27, 2018 Author Share Posted May 27, 2018 May 27th Aleksandr Volkov (1948) USSR Selected 1976 Soyuz T-14/Salyut 7 Expedition 5, 17 September – 21 November 1985 (64d 21h 52m) Soyuz TM-7/Mir Expedition 4, 26 November 1988 – 27 April 1989 (151d 11h 8m) Soyuz TM-13/Mir Expedition 10, 2 October 1991 – 25 March 1992 (175d 2h 51m) Total flight time 391d 11h 51m Retired August 1998 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 28, 2018 Author Share Posted May 28, 2018 May 28th Paul Scully-Power (1944) USA Selected 1984 STS-41G, 5 - 13 October 1984 (8d 5h 23m) - Deployed Earth Radiation Budget Satellite Retired October 1984 Vladimir Gevorkyan (1952) USSR Selected 1978 Retired 1987; no flights Died of a brain tumour 13 April 2008 Glenn Yeakel (1956) USA Selected 1982 (USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer Group 2) Retired July 1988; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 29, 2018 Author Share Posted May 29, 2018 May 29th No astronaut birthdays today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 30, 2018 Author Share Posted May 30, 2018 May 30th Aleksei Leonov (1934) USSR Selected 1960 Voskhod 2, 18 - 19 March 1965 (1d 2h 2m) - First man to make an EVA Soyuz 19, 15 - 21 July 1975 (5d 22h 30m) - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Total fl;ight time 7d 0h 32m Retired January 1982 Michael Booen (1957) USA Selected 1982 (USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer Group 2) Backup for STS-51J Retired 1987; no flights Michael Lopez-Alegria (1958) USA (Born in Spain but is US citizen) Selected 1992 (NASA Group 14) STS-73, 20 October - 5 November 1995 (15d 21h 52m) - United States Microgravity Lab 2 STS-92, 11 - 24 October 2000 (12d 21h 42m) - Delivered Z1 truss, Pressurised Mating Adapter, gyroscopes and other equipment to the ISS STS-113, 24 November - 7 December 2002 (13d 18h 47m) - Delivered P1 truss to the ISS; also crew exchange (Expedition 6 up; Expedition 5 down) Soyuz TMA-9/ISS Expedition 14, 18 September 2006 - 21 April 2007 (215d 8h 22m) Total flight time 257d 22h 43m Retired March 2012 Helen Sharman (1963) United Kingdom Selected 1989 Soyuz TM-12/Mir Visiting Flight 5, 18 - 26 May 1991 (7d 21h 13m) - Also crew exchange (Expedition 9 up; Expedition 8 down). First UK citizen in space Retired 1998 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted May 31, 2018 Author Share Posted May 31, 2018 May 31st Vladislav Gulyayev (1937) USSR Selected 1963 Retired March 1968 for medical reasons following an accident; no flights Died of a heart attack 19 April 1990 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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