pdsvidioman Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Very informative, thank you, Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 24, 2018 Author Share Posted July 24, 2018 July 24th Boris Belousov (1930) USSR Selected 1965 Retired 1968, apparently because he could not meet the weight restrictions; no flights Died 27 June 1998 Anatoli Dedkov (1944) USSR Selected 1970 Retired 1983; no flights Died 17 September 2016 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 July 25th Paul Weitz (1932) USA Selected 1966 (NASA Group 5) Skylab 2 (Expedition 1), 25 May - 22 June 1973 (28d 0h 50m) STS-6, 4 - 9 April 1983 (5d 0h 23m) - First flight of Challenger. Deployed TDRS-A comsat Total flight time 33d 1h 13m Retired March 1988 Died 23 October 2017 Daniel Bursch (1957) USA Selected 1990 (NASA Group 13) STS-51, 12 - 22 September 1993 (9d 20h 11m) - Deployed ACTS comsat; also carried ORFEUS astrophysics package STS-68, 30 September - 11 October 1994 (11d 5h 46m) - Carried Space Radar Laboratory SRL-2 STS-77, 19 - 29 May 1996 (10d 0h 39m) - Deployed and retrieved free-flying SPARTAN experiment pallet STS-108/ISS Expedition 4, 5 December 2001 - 19 June 2002 (195d 19h 38m) - Landed aboard STS-111 Total flight time 226d 22h 14m Retired June 2005 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 26, 2018 Author Share Posted July 26, 2018 July 26th Rimantus Stankevičius (1944) USSR Selected 1977 Trained to fly the Buran Shuttle; assigned as co-pilot on the first manned flight Killed 9 September 1990 in crash at an Italian air show William Shepherd (1949) USA Selected 1984 (NASA Group 10) STS-27, 2 - 7 December 1988 (4d 9h 5m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed the Lacrosse surveillance satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office and the CIA STS-41, 6 - 10 October 1990 (4d 2h 10m) - Deployed the Ulysses Solar Polar probe STS-52, 22 October - 1 November 1992 (9d 20h 56m) - Deployed the LAGEOS II laser ranging satellite; also carried US Microgravity Payload (USMP-1) Soyuz TM-31/ISS Expedition 1, 31 October 2000 - 21 March 2001 (140d 23h 38m) - Landed aboard STS-102 Total flight time 159d 7h 49m Retired August 2002 The launch of Soyuz TM-31 began a human presence in orbit that has continued uninterrupted to this day - as at 26 July this stands at 6,477 days (and counting) William McArthur (1951) USA Selected 1990 (NASA Group 13) STS-58, 18 October - 1 November 1993 (14d 0h 12m) - Carried Spacelab Life Sciences SLS-2 STS-74, 12 - 20 November 1995 (8d 4h 30m) - Second Shuttle-Mir docking; delivered the Russian-built Docking Module STS-92, 11 - 24 October 2000 (12d 21h 52m) - Delivered the Z1 truss and the Pressurized Mating Adaptor to the ISS ready for the first occupants Soyuz TMA-7/ISS Expedition 12, 1 October 2005 - 8 April 2006 (189d 19h 52m) Total flight time 224d 22h 16m Retired January 2012 Neil Woodward (1962) USA Selected 1998 (NASA Group 17) Retired July 2008; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 July 27th Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Al Masrie bin Sheikh Mustapha (1972) Malaysia Selected 2006 Soyuz TMA-11/ISS Visiting Flight 9, 10 - 21 October 2007 (10d 21h 13m) - Landed aboard Soyuz TMA-10 Retired October 2007 The name Sheikh Mustapha is a patronymic; his family name is Shukor Al Masrie, shortened to Shukor on the mission patch Flight was part of a deal where Malaysia purchased eighteen Sukhou Su-30MKM fighters from Russia The last part of the mission took place during Ramadan, and a special guidebook for Muslim astronauts was created, titled Guidelines for Performing Islamic Rites (Ibadah) at the International Space Station, detailing issues such as how to pray in a low-gravity environment, how to locate Mecca from the ISS, how to determine prayer times, and issues surrounding fasting (given that the ISS orbit results in one day/night cycle every ninety minutes). Aydyn Aimbetov (1972) Kazakhstan Selected 2002 Soyuz TMA-18M/ISS Visiting Flight 14, 2 - 12 September 2015 (9d 20h 14m) - Landed aboard Soyuz TMA-16M Still on active status Aimbetov's place on TMA-18M was originally assigned to the singer Sarah Brightman as a Spaceflight Participant but she dropped out for undisclosed reasons Information from Spacefacts website and Wikipedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 28, 2018 Author Share Posted July 28, 2018 July 28th Aleksei Borodai (1947) USSR Selected 1979 Flew six in-atmosphere tests with the jet-powered Buran Analogue Assigned to a Soyuz-TM mission to Mir to give him flight experience before piloting Buran but programme was cancelled Retired December 1993; no flights Lost both legs on 8 October 1996 in crash-landing of AN-124 Scott Parazynski (1961) USA Selected 1992 (NASA Group 14) STS-66, 3 - 14 November 1994 (10d 22h 34m) - Carried ATLAS-3 solar observatory STS-86, 26 September - 6 October 1997 (10d 19h 20m) - Seventh Shuttle-Mir Mission; crew exchange (Wolf up; Foale down) STS-95, 29 October - 7 November 1998 (8d 21h 44m) - Deployed and retrieved SPARTAN free-flyer, also SPACEHAB module; crew included John Glenn STS-100, 19 April - 1 May 2001 (11d 21h 30m) - Delivered Canadarm manipulator and other equipment and supplies to the ISS STS-120, 23 October - 7 November 2007 (15d 2h 23m) - Delivered Harmony Node 2 and other equipment and supplies to the ISS Total flight time 57d 15h 31m Retired March 2009 Robert Behnken (1970) USA Selected 2000 (NASA Group 18) STS-123, 11 - 27 March 2008 (15d 18h 11m) - Delivered Japanese module Kibo plus other equipment and supplies to the ISS STS-130, 8 - 22 February 2010 (13d 18h 6m) - Delivered Node 3 Tranquility module and the Cupola observation dome to the ISS Still on active status; total flight time to date 29d 12h 17m Information from Spacefacts website and Encyclopedia Astronautica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 29, 2018 Author Share Posted July 29, 2018 July 29th No astronaut birthdays today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 30, 2018 Author Share Posted July 30, 2018 July 30th Aleksandr Balandin (1953) USSR Selected 1978 Soyuz TM-9/Mir Expedition 6, 11 February - 9 August 1990 (179d 1h 17m) Retired October 1994 Gregory C. Johnson (1954) USA Selected 1998 (NASA Group 17) STS-125, 11 - 24 May 2009 (12d 21h 37m) - Fifth and last Hubble Servicing Mission Retiral date unknown Though STS-125 was the fifth Hubble mission it was officially designated HST-SM-04 because the third mission was split into two parts, known as 3A and 3B. Apparently NASA had learned nothing from the confusion caused by the Skylab flight numbering! Johnson is not to be confused with astronaut Gregory H. Johnson Information from Spacefacts website 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 July 31st Pratiwi Sudarmono (1952) Indonesia Selected 1985 Assigned to STS-61H but mission cancelled following the Challenger accident Retired January 1986; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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