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Yuri Gagarin
b. 3-9-1934; Klushino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
d. 3-27-1968; crash of MiG 15 training jet
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was first human in space flight, 4-12-1961, Vostok 1.
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Owen Kay Garriott, Ph.D
b. 11-22-1930; Enid, OK
Scientist-Astronaut Owen Garriott spent 60 days aboard Skylab in 1973 and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 in 1983.
Garriott's son, Richard, was a space tourist in 2008, making the Garriott's the second set of father-son astronauts. The cosmonauts Aleksandr (1991) and Sergey (2008) Volkov were first.
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Geber
b. c. 721; Iran
d. c. 815
Geber was the Latinized name of Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan, an Islamic alchemist and philosopher and astronomer.
While best known for his “scientific” approach to alchemy, Gerber made important contributions to astronomy / astrology which were not separate disciplines.
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John Glenn
b. 7-18-1921; Cambridge, OH
John Glenn was the first American in orbital flight on 2-20-1962, Mercury 6 aboard Friendship 7.
In a second space flight on Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95 in 1998, at age 77, Glenn became the oldest person in space. Between 1974 and 1999 Glenn also served as US Senator from his home state of Ohio.
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Virgil “Gus” Grissom
b. 4-3-1926; Mitchell, Indiana
d. 1-27-1967; Cape Kennedy, FL
Gus Grissom, a US Air Force pilot, was one of the original Mercury astronauts. He was the second American in space, the first person to fly in space twice, and died with fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission.
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