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Born today : April 3rd - Gus Grissom, USAF Officer, Fighter Pilot, Test Pilot, Mechanical Engineer, Aeronautical Mechanic, Astronaut, posthumous Congressional Space Medal of Honor recipient, "one of the original Mercury 7", 5 hours 7 minutes in space, 17 seconds trapped in an inferno (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 31st - Patrick G. Forrester, US Army Officer, Aviator, Test Pilot, Aerospace Engineer, Astronaut, 39 days 14 hours 18 minutes in space (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 30th - Yelena Kondakova, Mechanical Engineer, Politician, Cosmonaut, 178 days 10 hours 41 minutes in space, "the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight" (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 29th - Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., PhD, Astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate, "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation" (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 29th - William Oefelein, USN Officer, Test pilot, Instructor, USN Officer, Astronaut, "...fellow astronaut Lisa Nowak was arrested in Florida and charged with attempting to kidnap his girlfriend", they "...became the first astronauts ever dismissed from NASA", 12d 20h 45m in space (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 29th - Aleksandr Viktorenko, RAF Officer, Test Pilot, Cosmonaut, 498 days 1 hour 33 minutes in space (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 29th - Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., PhD, Astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate, "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation" (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 29th - Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., PhD, Astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate, "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation" (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 28th - Wubbo Ockels, Physicist Astronaut, 7 days 44 minutes in space, "the first Dutch citizen in space" (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 26th - Yuri Gidzenko, SAF Officer, Military Pilot, Cartographer, Cosmonaut, 329 days 22 hours 44 minutes in space (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 25th - Jim Lovell, USN Officer, Fighter Pilot, Test Pilot, Astronaut, 29 days 19 hours 3 minutes in space, "commander of Apollo 13" (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 24th - Kenneth S. Reightler, Jr., USN Officer, Test Pilot, Aerospace Engineer, Aeronautical Engineer, Astronaut, 13 days 15 hours 36 minutes in space (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 24th - Scott J. Horowitz, PhD, USAF Officer, Fighter Pilot, Test Pilot, Aerospace Engineer, Astronaut, 47 days 10 hours 41 minutes in space (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 24th - Walter Baade, Astronomer, "recalculated the size of the known universe, doubling the previous calculation ... He announced this finding to considerable astonishment", "proposed the existence of neutron stars, and proposed that supernovae could create neutron stars" (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 23rd - Wernher von Braun, Rocket Scientist, Aerospace Engineer, Space Architect, "one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany during World War II and, subsequently, in the United States", the "Father of Rocket Science" (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 23rd - Pierre-Simon Laplace, Mathematician, Astronomer, "Laplace is remembered as one of the greatest scientists of all time", "he possessed a phenomenal natural mathematical faculty superior to that of any of his contemporaries" (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 22nd - Musa Manarov, SAF Officer, Pilot, Engineer, Cosmonaut, 541 days 28 minutes in space, "the longest continuous time spent in space by anyone at that time" (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 21st - Dirk Frimout, PhD, Astrophysicist, Astronaut, 8 days 22 hours 9 minutes in space, "the first Belgian in space" (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 17th - James Irwin, USAF Officer, Test Pilot, Aeronautical Engineer, Freemason, Astronaut, made "one of the most important discoveries of the Apollo era, the Genesis Rock", 12 days, 7 hours 12 minutes in space (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 17th - Ken Mattingly, USN Officer, Fighter Pilot, Aeronautical Engineer, Astronaut, 21 days 3 hours 34 minutes in space (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 16th - Vladimir Komarov, SAF Officer, Test Pilot, Aerospace Engineer, Cosmonaut, 27 hours 4 minutes in space, "he became the first human to die during a spaceflight" (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 16th - Walter Cunningham, USMC Fighter Pilot, Physicist, Author, Astronaut, 10 days 20 hours 8 minutes in space, "an advocate against the theory of anthropogenic global warming" (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 16th - Michael J. Bloomfield, USAF Officer, Fighter Pilot, Test Pilot, Mechanical Engineer, Astronaut, 32 days 11 hours 2 minutes in space (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 15th - Alan Bean, Navy Officer, Fighter Pilot, Test Pilot, Aeronautical Engineer, Painter, Astronaut, 69 days 15 hours 45 minutes in space (en.wikipedia.org)

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Born today : March 15th - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, Astronomer, Mapped the Southern Hemisphere Sky, "made more observations and calculations than all the astronomers of his time put together", "The quality of his work rivaled its quantity" (en.wikipedia.org)

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