Astronaut Birthdays for November

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November 26

 

Boris Yegorov (1937) USSR

Selected 1964

Voskhod 1, 12 - 13 October 1964 (1d 0h 17m) - First multi-manned flight

Retired October 1964

Died of a heart attack 12 September 1994

 

 

Richard Arnold (1963) USA

Selected 2004 (NASA Group 19)

STS-119, 15 - 28 March 2009 (12d 19h 29m) - Delivered S6 Truss and Solar Array to the ISS; partial crew exchange (Wakata up; Magnus down)

Soyuz MS-08/ISS Expeditions 55/56, 21 March - 4 October 2018 (196d 18h 0m)

Still on active status; flight time to date 209d 13h 29m

 

 

 

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November 27

 

James Taylor (1930) USA

Selected 1965 (MOL Group 1)

Trained to fly on the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory but programme cancelled

Retired June 1969

Killed in T-38 crash 4 September 1970

 

 

Kent Bailey (1947) USA

Selected 1990

Trained for US Army Terra Geode but mission cancelled

Retired 1992

 

 

James Wetherbee (1952) USA

Selected 1984 (NASA Group 10)

STS-32, 9 - 20 January 1990 (10d 21h 0m) - Deployed one comsat and retrieved the Long Duration Exposure Facility (on orbit since April 1984)

STS-52, 22 October - 1 November 1992 (9d 20h 56m) - Deployed Laser Geodynamics Satellite (LAGEOS-II)

STS-63, 3 - 11 February 1995 (8d 6h 28m) - First Shuttle-Mir rendezvous (no docking)

STS-86, 26 September - 6 October 1997 (10d 19h 20m) - Seventh Shuttle-Mir docking; crew exchange (Wolf up; Foale down)

STS-102, 8 - 21 March 2001 (12d 19h 49m) - Delivered supplies and equipment to the ISS; also crew exchange (Expedition 2 up; Expedition 1 down)

STS-113, 24 November - 7 December 2002 (13d 18h 47m) - Delivered P1 Truss to ISS; crew exchange (Expedition 6 up; Expedition 5 down). Last flight before Columbia

Total flight time 66d 10h 20m

Retired January 2005

 

 

 

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November 28

 

Barbara Morgan (1951) USA

Selected 1985 (Teacher in Space Group)

Backup on STS-51L

Selected 1998 (NASA Group 17)

STS-118, 8 - 21 August 2007 (12d 17h 55m) - Delivered S5 Truss to the ISS

Retired August 2008

 

Following the Challenger accident on STS-51L, Morgan applied to NASA and was accepted as part of Group 17. She therefore flew STS-118 as a fully qualified Mission Specialist astronaut and not a Payload Specialist as Christa McAuliffe had been.

 

 

Glynn Holt (1959) USA

Selected 1994 (US Microgravity Lab Group 2)

Backup on STS-73

Retired November 1995; no flights

 

 

 

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November 29

 

Kenneth Cameron (1949) USA

Selected 1984 (NASA Group 10)

STS-37, 5 - 11 April 1991 (5d 23h 32m) - Deployed the Gamma Ray Observatory

STS-56, 8 - 17 April 1993 (9d 6h 8m) - Carried Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-2)

STS-74, 12 - 20 November 1995 (8d 4h 30m) - Second Shuttle-Mir docking; delivered Docking Module 

Total flight time 23d 10h 10m

Retired August 1996

 

 

Jess Sponable (1955) USA

Selected 1982 (Manned Spaceflight Engineer Group 2)

Retired 1987; no flights

 

 

 

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November 30

 

Mike Melvill (1940) USA

Selection date unknown

SpaceShipOne Flight 15P, 21 June 2004 (24m) - First privately-financed spaceflight (suborbital) - Time shown is of independent flight following separation from carrier

SpaceShipOne Flight 16P, 29 September 2004 (24m) - Suborbital; first of two flights within a two-week period to qualify for X-prize

Total flight time 48m

Retired October 2007

 

 

 

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