GordonD Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 November 1 Jan Davis (1953) USA Selected 1987 (NASA Group 12) STS-47, 12 - 20 September 1992 (7d 22h 30m) - Carried Japabese-financed Spacelab-J STS-60, 3 - 11 February 1994 (8d 7h 9m) - Carried SPACEHAB module; deployed and retrieved Wake Shield Facility. First flight of a Russian (Krikalev) on the Shuttle STS-85, 7 - 19 August 1997 (11d 20h 26m) - Deployed and retrieved Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers & Telescopes for Atmosphere-Shuttle Pallet Satellite (CRISTA-SPAS-2) Total flight time 28d 2h 5m Retired June 1999 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 2, 2018 Author Share Posted November 2, 2018 November 2 Oldrich Pelczak (1943) Czechoslovakia Selected 1976 (Interkosmos Group 1) Backup for Soyuz 28 Retired March 1978; no flights Jeffrey Hoffman (1944) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8 ) STS-51D, 12 - 19 April 1985 (6d 23h 55m) - Deployed two comsats; one failed to power up and was retreieved and repaired on a later mission STS-35, 2 - 11 December 1990 (8d 23h 5m) - Carried Spacelab ASTRO-1 STS-46, 31 July - 8 August 1992 (7d 23h 15m) - Deployed and retrieved EURECA free-flyer pallet; also failed Tethered Satellite experiment (tether jammed) STS-61, 2 - 13 December 1993 (10d 19h 58m) - First Hubble servicing mission - restored telescope to its design capability and replaced solar arrays STS-75, 22 February - 9 March 1996 (15d 17h 40m) - Carried US Microgravity Payload (USMP-3); also failed Tethered Satellite experiment (tether broke) Total flight time 50d 11h 53m Retired July 1997 Andreas Mogensen (1976) Denmark Selected 2009 (ESA Group 3) Soyuz TMA-18M/ISS Visiting Flight 14, 2 - 12 September 2015 (9d 20h 14m) - Landed aboard Soyuz TMA-16M Still on active flight status Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 3, 2018 Author Share Posted November 3, 2018 Hopefully these are correct! November 3 Bill Dana (1930) USA Selected 1960 (USAF) Trained to fly the X-20 Dyna-Soar but programme cancelled Flew the X-15 sixteen times including the 199th and last. Peak altitude was approx. 93km which qualifies as a space flight under USAF but not FAI rules Flew 31 lifting body missions: one M2-F1, nine HL-10, nineteen M2-F3 and two X-24B, producing data later used to design the Space Shuttle Orbiter Retired October 1968 Awarded astronaut wings in 2005 Died of Parkinson's Disease 6 May 2014 Kevin Chilton (1954) USA Selected 1987 (Group 12) STS-49, 8 - 16 May 1992 (8d 21h 17m) - Retrieved, repaired and redeployed Intelsat VI comsat which had failed to boost to geosynch orbit. First flight of Endeavour STS-59, 9 - 20 April 1994 (11d 5h 49m) - Carried Space Radar Laboratory (SRL-1) STS-76, 22 - 31 March 1996 (9d 5h 49m) - Third Shuttle-Mir docking; delivered Shannon Lucid to Mir Total flight time 29d 8h 22m Retired August 1998 Jeanette Epps (1970) Selected 2009 (NASA Group 20) Backup for Soyuz MS-07/ISS Expedition 54 On active status; no flight assignments yet Information from Spacefacts and Wikipedia websites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 4, 2018 Author Share Posted November 4, 2018 November 4 No astronaut birthdays today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 November 5 Robert Cenker (1948) USA Selected 1985 (RCA Payload Specialist) STS-61C, 12 - 18 January 1986 (6d 2h 3m) - Carried Materials Science Laboratory; also deployed comsat. Last flight before the Challenger accident Retired January 1986 Charles Hobaugh (1961) USA Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) STS-104, 12 - 25 July 2001 (12d 18h 35m) - Delivered the Quest Joint Airlock to the ISS STS-118, 8 - 21 August 2007 (12d 17h 55m) - Delivered the S5 Truss to the ISS STS-129, 16 - 27 November 2009 (10d 19h 16m) - Delivered supplies and equipment to the ISS; also crew retrieval (Stott down). Total flight time 36d 7h 46m Retired September 2011 Alan Poindexter (1961) USA Selected 1998 (NASA Group 17) STS-122, 7 - 20 February 2008 (12d 18h 21m) - Delivered ESA Columbus module to the ISS; partial crew exchange (Eyharts up; Tani down) STS-131, 5 - 20 April 2010 (15d 2h 47m) - Delivered supplies and equipment to the ISS. Last 'round trip' of the Leonardo Logistics Module Total flight time 27d 21h 8m Retired December 2010 Died 1 July 2012 following a jet-ski accident ISS supply craft Cygnus Orb CRS-5 (launched 17 October 2016) named in his honour Alvin Drew (1962) USA Selected 2000 (NASA Group 18) STS-118, 8 - 21 August 2007 (12d 17h 55m) - Delivered the S5 Truss to the ISS STS-133, 24 February - 9 March 2011 (12d 19h 4m) - Delivered supplies and equipment to the ISS. Leonardo Logistics Module left permanently attached to ISS Total flight time 25d 12h 59m Retired October 2013 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 6, 2018 Author Share Posted November 6, 2018 November 6 Mikhail Sologub (1936) USSR Selected 1967 Discharged September 1968 for not meeting training standards; no flights Died of leukaemia 4 August 1996 Nadezhda Kushelnaya (1962) Russia Selected 1994 Backup for Soyuz TM-33 Retired May 2004; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 7, 2018 Author Share Posted November 7, 2018 November 7 No astronaut birthdays today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 8, 2018 Author Share Posted November 8, 2018 November 8 Richard Lawyer (1932) USA Selected 1965 (MOL Group 1) Would have flown aboard the Manned Orbiting Laboratory but programme cancelled Retired June 1969; no flights Died 11 December 2005 Ed Gibson (1936) USA Selected 1965 (NASA Group 4) Skylab 4 (Expedition 3), 16 November 1973 - 8 February 1974 (84d 1h 15m) Retired November 1982 Aleksandr Kramarenko (1942) USSR Selected 1965 Retired for medical reasons April 1969; no flights Died of a heart attack 30 April 1969 Rhea Seddon (1947) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8 ) STS-51D, 12 - 19 April 1985 (6d 23h 55m) - Deployed two comsats; one failed to power up and had to be repaired on a later mission STS-40, 5 - 14 June 1991 (9d 2h 14m) - Carried Spacelab Life Sciences (SLS-1) STS-58, 18 October - 1 November 1993 (14d 0h 12m) - Carried Spacelab Life Sciences (SLS-2) Total flight 30d 2h 21m Retired February 1998 Dale Gardner (1948) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8 ) STS-8, 30 August - 5 September 1983 (6d 1h 8m) STS-51A, 8 - 16 November 1984 (7d 23h 44m) Named for STS-62A (first flight out of Vandenberg); mission cancelled following the Challenger accident Total flight time 14d 0h 52m Retired October 1986 Died 19 February 2014 Charles Jones (1952) USA Selected 1982 (Manned Spaceflight Engineer Group 2) Named for STS-71B; mission cancelled following the Challenger accident Retired January 1987; no flights Died 11 September 2001 on American Airlines Flight 11 which hit the World Trade Center Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 9, 2018 Author Share Posted November 9, 2018 November 9 No astronaut birthdays today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 10, 2018 Author Share Posted November 10, 2018 November 10 Ron Evans (1933) USA Selected 1966 (NASA Group 5) Apollo 17, 7 - 19 December 1972 (12d 13h 52m) - CMP on sixth and last Moon-landing mission Retired March 1977 Died of a heart attack 7 April 1990 Mark Vande Hei (1966) USA Selected 2009 (NASA Group 20) Soyuz MS-06/ISS Expeditions 53/54, 12 September 2017 - 28 February 2018 (168d 5h 14m) Still on active flight status Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 11, 2018 Author Share Posted November 11, 2018 November 11 Vladimir Solovyov (1946) USSR Selected 1978 Soyuz T-10/Salyut 7 Expedition 3, 8 February - 2 October 1984 (236d 22h 49m) Soyuz T-15/Mir Expedition 1/Salyut 7 Expedition 6, 13 March - 16 July 1986 (125d 0h 0m) Total flight time 361d 22h 49m Retired February 1994 Soyuz T-15 undocked from Mir on 5 May and docked with Salyut 7 one day later. On 26 June the process was reversed. These are the only transfers between two space stations in spaceflight history. Konstantin Valkov (1971) Russia Selected 1997 Retired for medical reasons July 2012; no flights Greg Wiseman (1975) USA Selected 2009 (NASA Group 20) Soyuz TMA-13M/ISS Expeditions 40/41, 28 May - 10 November 2014 (165d 8h 1m) Still on active flight status Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 12, 2018 Author Share Posted November 12, 2018 November 12 Dick Truly (1937) USA Selected 1965 (MOL Group 1) - Transferred to NASA 1969 (Group 7) Flew the second and fourth Air Launched Tests of the Orbiter Enterprise (glideback after launch from 747 carrier); 13 September and 12 October 1977 STS-2, 12 - 14 November 1981 (2d 6h 13m) - Second flight of the Shuttle; carried OSTA-1 experiment pallet. Truly is the first man to be launched on his birthday STS-8, 30 August - 5 September 1983 (6d 1h 8m) - Deployed one comsat (a second was delayed and a test article flown instead to test the Canadarm manipulator) Total flight time 8d 7h 21m Retired October 1983 John Hawker (1954) USA Selected 1988 Candidate for US Army's Terra Scout but programme cancelled Retired January 1994; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 13, 2018 Author Share Posted November 13, 2018 November 13 Sergei Ryazansky (1974) Russia Selected 2003 Soyuz TMA-10M/ISS Expeditions 37/38, 25 September 2013 - 11 March 2014 (166d 6h 25m) Soyuz MS-05/ISS Expeditions 52/53, 28 July - 14 December 2017 (138d 16h 56m) Total flight time 304d 23h 21m Retired July 2018 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 14, 2018 Author Share Posted November 14, 2018 November 14 Ed White (1930) USA Selected 1962 (NASA Group 2) Gemini IV, 3 - 7 June 1965 (4d 1h 56m) - First American EVA Died in the Apollo 1 pad fire, 27 January 1967 Fred Haise (1933) USA Selected 1966 (NASA Group 5) Apollo 13, 11 - 17 April 1970 (5d 22h 54m) - Planned as the third lunar landing; mission aborted following oxygen tank explosion in the Service Module Flew the first, third and fifth Air Launched Tests of Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise (12 August, 23 September and 26 October 1977) Retired June 1979 Rudolf Gulyayev (1934) USSR Selected 1967 Retired for medical reasons August 1968; no flights Gennadi Dolgopolov (1935) USSR Selected 1966 Retired for medical reasons May 1967; no flights Died 13 November 2008 Ken Bowersox (1956) USA Selected 1987 (NASA Group 12) STS-50, 25 June - 9 July 1992 (13d 19h 30m) - Carried US Microgravity Laboratory (USML-1) STS-61, 2 - 13 December 1993 (10d 19h 58m) - First Hubble servicing mission - restored telescope to its design capability and replaced solar arrays STS-73, 20 October - 5 November 1995 (15d 21h 52m) - Carried US Microgravity Laboratory (USML-2) STS-82, 11 - 21 February 1997 (9d 23h 37m) - Second Hubble servicing mission STS-113/ISS Expedition 6, 24 November - 4 May 2003 (161d 1h 14m) - Landed aboard Soyuz TMA-1. Was on-orbit at the time of the Columbia accident Total flight time 211d 14h 11m Retired May 2006 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 November 15 Yuri Prikhodko (1953) USSR Selected 1989 Trained for Buran mission but programme cancelled Retired April 1994; no flights Died of cancer 25 July 2001 Timothy Creamer (1959) USA Selected 1998 (NASA Group 17) Soyuz TMA-17/ISS Expeditions 22/23, 20 December 2009 - 2 June 2010 (163d 5h 32m) Retired May 2011 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 November 16 Carl Meade (1950) USA Selected 1985 (NASA Group 11) STS-38, 16 - 20 November 1990 (4d 21h 55m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed Magnum-3 satellite STS-50, 25 June - 9 July 1992 (13d 19h 30m) - Carried US Microgravity Laboratory (USML-1) STS-64, 9 - 20 September 1994 (10d 22h 49m) - Carried LIDAR In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE); optical radar system using laser pulses instead of radio waves Total flight time 29d 16h 14m Retired February 1996 Maureen LaComb (1956) USA Selected 1982 (Manned Spaceflight Engineer Group 2) Assigned to a StarLab mission but injured in car accident in June 1988 Retired September 1990; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 17, 2018 Author Share Posted November 17, 2018 November 17 John-David Bartoe (1944) USA Selected 1978 (Spacelab Group 2) STS-51F, 29 July - 6 August 1985 (7d 22h 45m) - Carried Spacelab 2 Retired August 1985 Michael Hoffpauir (1957) USA Selected 1990 Candidate for US Army Terra Geode mission but programme cancelled Retired 1992; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 18, 2018 Author Share Posted November 18, 2018 November 18 Alan Shepard (1923) USA Selected 1959 (NASA Group 1) Freedom 7 (Mercury-Redstone 3), 5 May 1961 (15m) - Suborbital flight; first American in space Selected for Gemini 3 but grounded due to Meniere's disease, an inner ear syndrome affecting balance Restored to flight status 1970 Apollo 14, 31 January - 9 February 1971 (9d 0h 1m) - Third lunar landing; fifth man to walk on the Moon Total flight time 9d 0h 16m Retired August 1974 Died 22 July 1998 William Knight (1929) USA Selected 1962 (X-20 Dyna-Soar Group) Transferred to X-15 programme when Dyna-Soar cancelled Made sixteen flights in the X-15 though none above the 100km mark Retired December 1963 Died of leukaemia 7 May 2004 Ural Sultanov (1948) USSR Selected 1983 Trained to fly Buran but programme cancelled Retired 1996; no flights Mark Brown (1951) USA Selected 1984 (NASA Group 10) STS-28, 8 - 13 August 1989 (5d 1h 0m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed two military satellites STS-48, 12 - 18 September 1991 (5d 8h 27m) - Deployed Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), observing mankind's effect on the ozone layer Total flight time 10d 9h 27m Retired July 1993 Vladimir Karashtin (1962) USSR Selected 1989 Retired January 2002; no flights Died 2 December 2015 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 19, 2018 Author Share Posted November 19, 2018 November 19 Eileen Collins (1956) USA Selected 1990 (NASA Group 13) STS-63, 3 - 11 February 1995 (8d 6h 28m) - First Shuttle-Mir rendezvous (no docking). Collins is first female Shuttle pilot STS-84, 15 - 24 May 1997 (9d 5h 20m) - Sixth Shuttle-Mir docking; partial crew exchange (Foale up; Linenger down) STS-93, 24 - 28 July 1999 (4d 22h 49m) - Deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Collins is first female Shuttle Commander STS-114, 26 July - 9 August 2005 (13d 21h 32m) - Delivered supplies and equipment to the ISS. First flight since the Columbia accident Total flight time 36d 8h 9m Retired May 2006 Jean-François Clervoy (1958) France Selected 1985 STS-66, 3 - 14 November 1994 (10d 22h 34m) - Carried Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Sciences (ATLAS-3) Spacelab STS-84, 15 - 24 May 1997 (9d 5h 20m) - Sixth Shuttle-Mir docking; partial crew exchange (Foale up; Linenger down) STS-103, 20 - 28 December 1999 (7d 23h 10m) - Third Hubble servicing mission (HST-3A) - replaced all six gyroscopes and other equipment Still on active status; total flight time to date 28d 3h 4m Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 20, 2018 Author Share Posted November 20, 2018 November 20 Timothy Mace (1955) United Kingdom Selected 1989 (Project Juno) Backup for Soyuz TM-12 (flown by Helen Sharman) Retired October 1991; no flights Later became helicopter pilot for Nelson Mandela Died of cancer 14 September 2014 Vladimir Severin (1956) USSR Selected 1990 Retired 1995; no flights James Dutton (1968) USA Selected 2004 (NASA Group 19) STS-131, 5 - 20 April 2010 (15d 2h 47m) - Delivered supplies and equipment to the ISS (last round trip of the Leonardo logistics module) Retired June 2012 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 21, 2018 Author Share Posted November 21, 2018 November 21 Henry Hartsfield (1933) USA Selected 1966 (MOL Group 2) - Transferred to NASA 1969 (Group 7) STS-4, 27 June - 4 July 1982 (7d 1h 9m) - Final Shuttle development flight; carried various scientific packages and tested manipulator arm STS-41D, 30 August - 5 September 1984 (6d 0h 57m) - Maiden flight of Discovery. Deployed three communications satellites STS-61A, 30 October - 6 November 1985 (7d 0h 44m) - Carried the German-financed Spacelab D-1. Final flight of Challenger Total flight time 20d 2h 50m Retired March 1988 Died 17 July 2014 David Vidrine (1943) USA Selected 1979 (Manned Spaceflight Engineer Group 1) Trained for STS-41C but the USAF decided not to fly an observer on this mission; never officially assigned Retired August 1985; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 22, 2018 Author Share Posted November 22, 2018 November 22 Owen Garriott (1930) USA Selected 1965 (NASA Group 4) Skylab 3 (Expedition 2), 28 July - 25 September 1973 (59d 11h 9m) STS-9, 28 November - 8 December 1983 (10d 7h 47m) - Carried Spacelab 1 Total flight time 69d 18h 56m Retired 1 August 1986 Father of Spaceflight Participant astronaut Richard Garriott Zenon Jankowski (1937) Poland Selected 1976 (Interkosmos Group 1) Backup for Soyuz 30 Retired July 1978; no flights Guion Bluford (1942) USA Selected 1978 (NASA Group 8 ) STS-8, 30 August - 5 September 1983 (6d 1h 8m) - Deployed INSAT-1B comsat; first Shuttle night launch and landing. Bluford is the first black American in space STS-61A, 30 0ctober - 6 November 1985 (7d 0h 44m) - Carried the German-financed Spacelab D-1. Final flight of Challenger STS-39, 28 April - 6 May 1991 (8d 7h 22m) - First unclassified DoD mission. Carried out several military-related observation experiments STS-53, 2 - 9 December 1992 (7d 7h 19m) - Final DoD mission. Deployed a military comsat and conducted observation experiments Total flight time 28d 16h 33m Retired June 1993 Frank DeArmond (1954) 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 November 23, 2018 Author Share Posted November 23, 2018 November 23 Vladislav Volkov (1935) USSR Selected 1968 Soyuz 7, 12 - 17 October 1969 (4d 22h 40m) - 'Troika' flight with Soyuz 6 and 8. Docking with Soyuz 8 cancelled after automated system failed Soyuz 11/Salyut 1 Expedition 1, 6 - 29 June 1971 (23d 18h 21m) - Killed when spacecraft depressurised during re-entry Total flight time 28d 17h 1m Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 24, 2018 Author Share Posted November 24, 2018 November 24 Charles Bock (1925) USA Selected 1962 (Military astronaut) Retiral date unknown; no flights Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 25, 2018 Author Share Posted November 25, 2018 November 25 Reinhard Furrer (1940) West Germany Selected 1982 STS-61A, 30 October - 6 November 1985 (7d 0h 44m) - Carried the German-financed Spacelab D-1. Final flight of Challenger Retired November 1985 Killed in crash of Me-108 near Berlin, 9 September 1995 Theresa Tittle (1960) 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...
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