GordonD Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 June 1st Georgi Dobrovolsky (1928) USSR Selected 1963 Soyuz 11/Salyut 1 Expedition 1, 6 - 29 June 1971 (23d 18h 21m) Killed when spacecraft accidentally decompressed during re-entry Gennadi Manakov (1950) USSR Selected 1985 Soyuz TM-10/Mir Expedition 7, 1 August - 10 December 1990 (130d 20h 35m) Soyuz TM-16/Mir Expedition 13, 24 January - 22 July 1993 (179d 0h 43m) Assigned to Soyuz TM-24/Mir Expedition 22 but grounded due to a heart condition five days before launch Total flight time 309d 21h 18m Retired December 1996 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 2, 2018 Author Share Posted June 2, 2018 June 2nd Pete Conrad (1930) USA Selected 1962 (NASA Group 2) Gemini V, 21 - 29 August 1965 (7d 22h 55m) - Longest flight to date; simulating the duration of a voyage to the Moon and back Gemini XI, 12 - 15 September 1966 (2d 23h 17m) - First-orbit docking with Agena target, simulating emergency launch from the Moon Apollo 12, 14 - 24 November 1969 (10d 4h 36m) - Third man on the Moon Skylab 2/Expedition 1, 25 May - 22 June 1973 (28d 0h 50m) - Conducted extensive repairs to the Workshop which was severely damaged during launch Total flight time 49d 3h 38m Retired February 1974 Killed in a motorcycle accident 8 July 1999 Yaroslav Golovanov (1932) USSR Selected 1965 Never undertook official cosmonaut training Retired April 1967 Died 21 May 2003 Cristiano Batalli-Cosmovici (1943) Italy Selected 1989 Retired August 1992; no flights Charles Chappell (1943) USA Selected 1985 Backup for STS-45 ATLAS 1 mission Retired April 1992; no flights Mark Polansky (1956) USA Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) STS-98, 7 - 20 February 2001 (12d 21h 20m) - Delivered the Destiny lab module to the ISS STS-116, 10 - 22 December 2006 (12d 20h 44m) - Delivered the P5 Truss to the ISS; also partial crew exchange (Williams up; Reiter down) STS-127, 15 - 31 July 2009 (15d 16h 45m) - Delivered the Kopra Japanese Module to the ISS; also partial crew exchange (Kopra up; Wakata down) Total flight time 41d 10h 49m Retired June 2012 Yi So-yeon (1978) South Korea Selected 2006 Soyuz TMA-12/ISS Visiting Flight 10, 8 - 19 April 2008 (10d 21h 13m) - Landed aboard Soyuz TMA-11 with Expedition 16 crew Retired August 2014 Originally backup for TMA-12 but primary cosmonaut Ko San was dropped for disciplinary reasons (removal of classified training material) Note that this is a Korean name; her family name is Yi Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 June 3rd Alfred Uhalt (1931) USA Selected 1962 (USAF Group 3) Would have flown X-20 Dyna-Soar but programme cancelled Retirement date unknown; no flights Malcolm Lydon (1946) USA Selected 1979 (USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer Group 1) Would have been a candidate for military Shuttle flights but programme cancelled Retired August 1986; no flights Yuri Krikun (1963) USSR Selected 1990 Underwent cosmonaut training for Journalist in Space; mission not flown Retired February 1992; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 4, 2018 Author Share Posted June 4, 2018 June 4th Shannon Walker (1965) USA Selected 2004 (NASA Group 19) Soyuz TMA-19/ISS Expeditions 24/25, 15 June - 26 November 2010 (163d 7h 11m) Still on active status Robert Kimbrough (1967) USA Selected 2004 (NASA Group 19) STS-126, 15 - 30 November 2008 (15d 20h 29m) - Carried Leonardo Module to the ISS (fifth flight); also partial crew exchange (Magnus up; Chamitoff down) Soyuz MS-02/ISS Expeditions 49/50, 19 October 2016 - 10 April 2017 (173d 3h 15m) Total flight time to date 188d 23h 44m Still on active status Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 June 5th Curt Michel (1934) USA Selected 1965 (NASA Group 4) Retired August 1969; no flights Died 23 February 2015 Richard Searfoss (1956) USA Selected 1990 (NASA Group 13) STS-58, 18 October - 1 November 1993 (14d 0h 12m) - Spacelab Life Sciences 2 STS-76, 22 - 31 March 1996 (9d 5h 16m) - Third Shuttle-MIR docking; delivered astronaut Lucid to Mir STS-90, 17 April - 3 May 1998 (15d 21h 50m) - Neurolab (final Spacelab mission) Total flight time 39d 3h 18m Retired December 1998 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 6, 2018 Author Share Posted June 6, 2018 June 6th Dave Scott (1932) USA Selected 1963 (NASA Group 3) Gemini VIII, 16 - 17 March 1966 (10h 41m) - First orbital docking; mission aborted when spacecraft began spinning uncontrollably due to a stuck thruster Apollo 9, 3 - 13 March 1969 (10d 1h 0m) - First flight of the complete Apollo spacecraft, including the LM, in Earth orbit Apollo 15, 26 July - 7 August 1971 - Seventh man on the Moon; fourth landing. First of the J-series missions with extended scientific programme including the LRV Total flight time 22d 18h 53m Retired October 1977 At the time of writing one of only four remaining Moon walkers Drew Gaffney (1946) USA Selected 1984 STS-40, 5 - 14 June 1991 (9d 2h 14m) - Spacelab Life Sciences 1 Retired June 1991 Jay Buckey (1956) USA Selected 1991 STS-90, 17 April - 3 May 1998 (15d 21h 50m) - Neurolab (final Spacelab mission) Retired May 1998 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 7, 2018 Author Share Posted June 7, 2018 June 7th Anne McClain (1979) USA Selected 2013 (NASA Group 21) Backup for Soyuz MS-09/ISS Expedition 56, launched 6 June 2018 Currently assigned to Soyuz MS-11/ISS Expedition 58, due for launch December 2018 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 8, 2018 Author Share Posted June 8, 2018 June 8th Valeri Yazdovsky (1930) USSR Selected 1968 Assigned to Soyuz 13 but prime crew was dropped because of personal differences Retired July 1982; no flights Died 10 November 2012 Bruce McCandless (1937) USA Selected 1966 (NASA Group 5) CAPCOM during the Apollo 11 Moon walk STS-41B, 3 - 11 February 1984 (7d 23h 15m) - Carried out the first test of the Manned Manoeuvring Unit (first untethered EVA) STS-31, 24 - 29 April 1990 (5d 1h 16m) - Deployed the Hubble Space Telescope Total flight time 13d 0h 31m Retired August 1990 Died 21 December 2017 Aleksandr Skvortsov Sr. (1942) USSR Selected 1965 Retired for medical reasons 1968; no flights Father of cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov Jr. Stanley Love (1965) USA Selected 1998 (NASA Group 17) STS-122, 7 - 20 February 2008 (12d 18h 21m) - Delivered ESA's Columbus Module to the ISS; also partial crew exchange (Eyharts up; Tani down) Retired November 2011 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 9, 2018 Author Share Posted June 9, 2018 June 9th No astronaut birthdays today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 10, 2018 Author Share Posted June 10, 2018 June 10th Jim McDivitt (1929) - USA Selected 1962 (NASA Group 2) Gemini IV, 3 - 7 June 1965 (4d 1h 56m) - First American EVA (performed by Ed White) Apollo 9, 3 - 13 March 1969 (10d 1h 0m) - First flight of the complete Apollo spacecraft, including the LM, in Earth orbit Total flight time 14d 2h 56m Retired June 1972 Nikolai Chub (1984) Russia Selected 2012 On active status; no flights yet Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 11, 2018 Author Share Posted June 11, 2018 June 11th Anatoly Voronov (1930) USSR Selected 1963 Trained for the Soviet lunar landing programme; later backup on Soyuz 11 Retired May 1979; no flights Died 31 October 1993 after a long illness James van Hoften (1944) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8 ) STS-41C, 6 - 13 April 1984 (6d 23h 40m) - Deployed LDEF; also retrieved, repaired and redeployed the malfunctioning Solar Max satellite STS-51I, 27 August - 3 September 1985 (7d 2h 17m) - Deployed two comsats; also retrieved, repaired and redeployed Syncom IV-3 which was stuck in a low orbit Total flight time 14d 1h 57m Retired August 1986 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 12, 2018 Author Share Posted June 12, 2018 June 12th Yuri Baturin (1949) Russia Selected 1997 Soyuz TM-28/Mir Visiting Flight 14, 13 - 25 August 1998 (11d 19h 39m) - landed aboard Soyuz TM-27 with Expedition 25 crew Soyuz TM-32/ISS Taxi Flight 1, 28 April - 6 May 2001 (7d 22h 4m) - landed aboard Soyuz TM-31. Carried first fare-paying space tourist Total flight time 19d 17h 43m Retired May 2009 Fernando Caldeiro (1958) USA (Born Argentina; US citizen) Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) Died of a brain tumour 3 October 2009 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 13, 2018 Author Share Posted June 13, 2018 June 13th Lachlan MacLeay (1931) USA Selected 1965 (USAF MOL Group 1) Trained to fly the Manned Orbiting Laboratory but programme cancelled Retired 1969; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 14, 2018 Author Share Posted June 14, 2018 June 14th No astronaut birthdays today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 15, 2018 Author Share Posted June 15, 2018 June 15th No astronaut birthdays today either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 16, 2018 Author Share Posted June 16, 2018 June 16th Taylor Wang (1940) USA Selected 1983 STS-51B, 29 April - 6 May 1985 (7d 0h 8m) - Spacelab 3 Retired May 1985 Michel Viso (1951) France Selected 1985 Candidate for STS-90 Eurolab Retired 1998; no flights Jeffrey Ashby (1954) USA Selected 1994 (NASA Group 15) STS-93, 23 - 28 July 1999 (4d 22h 49m) - Deployed Chandra X-ray Observatory (First flight with a female Shuttle commander) STS-100, 19 April - 1 May 2001 (11d 21h 30m) - Delivered Canadarm manipulator to the ISS STS-112, 7 - 18 October 2002 (10d 19h 58m) - Delivered S1 Truss and other equipment to the ISS Total flight time 27d 16h 17m Retired June 2008 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 17, 2018 Author Share Posted June 17, 2018 June 17th No astronaut birthdays today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 18, 2018 Author Share Posted June 18, 2018 June 18th Vitali Zholobov (1937) USSR Selected 1963 Soyuz 21/Salyut 5 Expedition 1, 6 July - 24 August 1976 (49d 6h 23m) Retired January 1981 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 19, 2018 Author Share Posted June 19, 2018 June 19th Viktor Patsayev (1933) USSR Selected 1968 Soyuz 11/Salyut 1 Expedition 1, 6 - 29 June 1971 (23d 18h 21m) Killed when spacecraft accidentally decompressed during re-entry Ron Townsend (1948) USA Selected 1985 Candidate for WOSE-1 (USAF meteorological flight) but mission cancelled Retired 1986; no flights Heike Walpot (1960) West Germany Selected 1987 Candidate for Spacelab D-2 mission but not selected Retired 1993; no flights Was a member of the West German swimming team at the 1976 Olympic Games Married to astronaut Hans Schlegel Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 20, 2018 Author Share Posted June 20, 2018 June 20 Ulf Merbold (1941) West Germany Selected 1978 (ESA Group 1) STS-9, 28 November - 8 December 1983 (10d 7h 47m) - Spacelab 1 STS-42, 22 - 30 November 1992 (8d 1h 14m) - International Microgravity Laboratory 1 Soyuz TM-20/Mir Visiting Flight 10, 3 October - 4 November 1994 (31d 12h 35m) - landed aboard Soyuz TM-19 Total flight time 49d 21h 36m Retired August 1998 James Buchli (1945) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8 ) STS-51C, 24 - 27 January 1985 (3d 1h 34m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed a secret satellite STS-61A, 30 October - 6 November 1985 (7d 0h 44m) - German-financed Spacelab D-1 STS-29, 13 - 18 March 1989 (4d 23h 39m) - Deployed TDRS-D comsat to improve communications with manned spacecraft STS-48, 12 - 18 September 1991 (5d 8h 27m) - Deployed Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) Total flight time 20d 10h 24m Retired August 1992 Gary Payton (1948) Selected 1979 (Manned Spaceflight Engineer Group 1) STS-51C, 24 - 27 January 1985 (3d 1h 34m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed a secret satellite Retired August 1985 Brian Duffy (1953) USA Selected 1985 (NASA Group 11) STS-45, 24 March - 2 April 1992 (8d 22h 9m) - Carried Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications & Science (ATLAS-1) STS-57, 21 June - 1 July 1993 (9d 23h 44m) - First SPACEHAB mission; retrieved EURECA experiment platform (deployed August 1992) STS-72, 11 - 20 January 1996 (8d 22h 0m) - Retrieved Japanese Space Flyer Unit (launched by conventional rocket March 1995) STS-92, 11 - 24 October 2000 (12d 21h 42m) - Delivered Z1 Truss, Pressurized Mating Adapter and other equipment to the ISS Total flight time 40d 17h 35m Retired April 2001 Ilan Ramon (1954) Israel Selected 1997 STS-107, 16 January - 1 February 2003 (15d 22h 20m to loss of signal) - Carried US Microgravity Laboratory Killed when Orbiter Columbia broke up over Texas during re-entry David Staib (1955) USA Selected 1985 (Manned Spaceflight Engineer Group 3) Retired July 1988; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 21, 2018 Author Share Posted June 21, 2018 June 21st Gennadi Padalka (1958) USSR Selected 1989 Soyuz TM-28/Mir Expedition 26, 13 August 1998 – 28 February 1999 (198d 16h 31m) Soyuz TMA-4/ISS Expedition 9, 19 April – 24 October 2004 (187d 21h 16m) Soyuz TMA-14/ISS Expeditions 19/20, 26 March – 11 October 2009 (198d 16h 42m) Soyuz TMA-04M/ISS Expeditions 31/32, 15 May – 17 September 2012 (124d 23h 51m) Soyuz TMA-16M/ISS Expeditions 43/44, 27 March – 12 September 2015 (168d 5h 9m) Total flight time 878d 11h 29m Retired April 2017 Holds the cumulative duration recordOleg D. Kononenko (1964) Russia Selected 1996 Soyuz TMA-12/ISS Expedition 17, 8 April – 24 October 2008 (198d 16h 20m) Soyuz TMA-03M/ISS Expeditions 30/31, 21 December 2011 – 1 July 2012 (192d 18h 58m) Soyuz TMA-17M/ISS Expeditions 44/45, 22 July – 11 December 2015 (141d 16h 9m) Total flight time to date 533d 3h 27m Still on active status Not to be confused with unflown cosmonaut Oleg G. KononenkoYang Liwei (1965) China Selected 1998 Shenzhou V, 15 October 2003 (21h 22m) – First Chinese man in space Retired; date unknown Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 22, 2018 Author Share Posted June 22, 2018 June 22nd No astronaut birthdays today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 23, 2018 Author Share Posted June 23, 2018 June 23rd Donn Eisele (1930) USA Selected 1963 (NASA Group 3) Apollo 7, 11 - 22 October 1968 (10d 20h 9m) - First manned Apollo flight Retired June 1972 Died 2 December 1987 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 24, 2018 Author Share Posted June 24, 2018 June 24th Lawrence Skantze (1928) USA Selected 1985 Candidate for a Department of Defense flight but mission cancelled following Challenger accident Retired 1986; no flights Ellison Onizuka (1946) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8 ) STS-51C, 24 - 27 January 1985 (3d 1h 34m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed a secret satellite STS-51L, 28 January 1986 - Killed when Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch. Not classed as a space flight as vehicle did not exceed 100km altitude Craig Puz (1954) USA Selected 1982 (Manned Spaceflight Engineer Group 2) Retired September 1990; no flights Died 21 December 2008 Frederic Patat (1958) France Selected 1985 (France Group 2) Candidate for missions on the Shuttle and to Salyut but not selected Retired August 1998; no flights Raja Chari (1977) USA Selected 2017 (NASA Group 22) Currently in astronaut training Jasmin Moghbeli (1983) USA Selected 2017 (NASA Group 22) Currently in astronaut training Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 25, 2018 Author Share Posted June 25, 2018 June 25th William Bridgeman (1916) USA Selected 1958 (MISS Group) Chosen for Man In Space Soonest project; programme cancelled in favour of Mercury when NASA was formed Retired 1958; no flights Killed in air crash 29 September 1968 Leonid Ivanov (1950) USSR Selected 1976 Killed in jet crash 24 October 1980; no flights Katherine Roberts (1954) USA Selected 1982 (Manned Spaceflight Engineer Group 2) Assigned to STS-62B (second flight out of Vandenberg) but mission cancelled following Challenger accident Retired 1987; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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