NE Thagard - 03.07.1943

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Norman Earl Thagard kończy dziś 80 lat.

Jest 122. człowiekiem w kosmosie.
Jego 5 lotów kosmicznych trwało łącznie 140d 13h 27m 04s.

Pierwszy amerykański uczestnik wyprawy na rosyjską stację kosmiczną Mir oraz pierwszy Amerykanin, który został wyniesiony na orbitę rosyjskim statkiem kosmicznym.
Został również pierwszym Amerykaninem, który spędził na orbicie co najmniej 100 dni, a 10. przedstawicielem tego kraju z doświadczeniem lotu na stacji kosmicznej.
Po 21 latach USA miały nowy rekord w długości trwania lotu kosmicznego swojego astronauty.
Pierwsza misja dr Thagarda STS-7 była po raz pierwszy 5-osobowa, a ostatnia STS-71 okazała się drugą i ostatnią, kiedy wahadłowiec wylądował z 8-osobową załogą.

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/thagard_norman.pdf
https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/ThagardNE/ThagardNE_4-23-98.htm

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/thagard_norman.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/t/thagard.html
https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/t/thagard-n.php

https://mek.kosmo.cz/bio/usa/00122.htm
https://www.kozmo-data.sk/kozmonauti/thagard-norman-earl.html
https://www.astronaut.ru/crossroad/122.htm
https://www.april12.eu/usaastron/thagard121ru.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Thagard
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Thagard

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12:11 AM · Jul 3, 2024

3 juillet
Norm Thagard fête son 52ème anniversaire à bord de MIR

https://x.com/spacemen1969/status/1808262240778305554

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Kazakhastan - American To Take Off In Russian Rock


Russia - US Astronauts End the Russian Training


SPACE: MIR SPACE STATION: ASTRONAUT NORMAN THAGARD


Space - American On Mir Is Making Friends


Space - Mir Crew Answers Students' Questions


RUSSIA: US ASTRONAUT ON BOARD RUSSIAN ROCKET TO MIR SPACE STATION


SPACE: SHUTTLE ATLANTIS: FIRST DAY OF MISSION


SPACE: MIR: AMERICAN ASTRONAUT WARNS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS

An American astronaut who spent 111 days on the Russian space station MIR has said  missions longer than six months could cause psychological problems.
Norman Thagard, who's celebrating his 52nd. birthday in space, said the language  barrier with Russian crew members was a strain.

Mir 18 Post Flight Presentation


Norm Thagard: First American on Mir


Norm Thagard


Lecture Series - Dr. Norm Thagard


Norman Thagard Explains the Microgravity Vestibular Investigation


UT Southwestern alumnus reaches for the stars literally!

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Wywiad z astronautą

Fast Five With Former Astronaut Norm Thagard
Irene Klotz April 08, 2020

When you look back on your days on Mir, what stands out as most important?

The thing that impressed me the most was that I was underworked. A lot of the equipment I was going to use was coming up on the Spektr, but the module didn’t come up until a month or so before the end of the flight. So a lot of the time I just was sitting around twiddling my thumbs, and when you’re in a spacecraft with not much to do and only two companions that’s not what you want. It bothered me a lot.

https://aviationweek.com/shows-events/space-symposium/fast-five-former-astronaut-norm-thagard

Engineering professors honored by top professional institutes

Thagard is perhaps best known for his days with NASA when, as a Mission Specialist Astronaut, he flew on four space shuttle flights. His fifth mission in 1995 was as a Cosmonaut Researcher for the 18th expedition to Russia's MIR Space Station. During that mission, he set an American space endurance record of 115 consecutive days. Among his many honors, he was named one of NASA's 15 "Superstars of Space Flight" in 1996 and was elected to the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2004.

https://www.fsu.edu/news/2008/12/12/professors.honored/

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Illustrious alumnus: Former astronaut Thagard recounts thrills of spaceflight
October 04, 2017

In 1977, Kirby Thagard turned on an early morning radio news broadcast, nudging into motion a cascade of circumstances that changed her husband’s life and set him on a historic career path.

The newscast mentioned that NASA was accepting astronaut applications for the first time in nearly a decade. She knew a perfect candidate – her husband, an older student at UT Southwestern Medical School with deep life experiences and a young family who was in his final year of schooling before the start of residency training.

“As a medical student, I never listened to the radio,” Dr. Thagard recalled. “I was lucky to sleep.”

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2017/former-astronaut-alumnus-thagard.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/03/21/interview-in-space-is-revealing/5d511c19-3ed5-4f4f-a55e-ea989f54526d/

https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4225/nasa1/nasa1.htm
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/couch-liner-anti-gravity-kazbek-u-norman-thagard/nasm_A19970070000

https://www.upi.com/News_Photos/view/upi/c958825f93a55f37130985e228b0c642/NASA-Celebrates-the-Tenth-Anniversary-of-the-Final-Space-Shuttle-Mission-at-the-KSC-Visitor-Center/
https://www.astronautscholarship.org/Astronauts/norman-e-thagard/
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https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/1675748203319156737

#HappyBirthday to ASE member Norman Thagard, who flew to space five times between 1983 and 1995 (STS-7, STS-51-B, STS-30, STS-42, and Soyuz TM-21), including as part of an expedition aboard Mir (Mir EO-18)!

https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1543625719288238081

Association of Space Explorers @ASE_Astronauts·
Jul 4#ASEspotlight: Norman Thagard 💫
As a doctor, ASE member Thagard performed medical experiments to evaluate physiological reactions of astronauts in space while aboard Space Shuttle Challenger in June 1983.
Fun fact: He enjoys classical music!
Happy 80th birthday, Norm!

https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1676003001289277441

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Stephane SEBILE @spacemen1969
3 juillet

Joyeux anniversaire (82) à Norm E. Thagard 🎂🎂🎂
(5 missions spatiales : STS-7 / 51B / 30 / 42 et Soyouz TM-21 - 1er américain à décoller à bord d'un d'un vaisseau russe - il revient avec STS-71 - en tout soit 140 jours 13 heures 25 minutes dans l'espace)

https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/1940531680575738231

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Association of Space Explorers @ASE_Astronauts
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#HappyBirthday to ASE member Norman Thagard, who flew to space five times between 1983 and 1995 (STS-7, STS-51-B, STS-30, STS-42, and Soyuz TM-21), including as part of an expedition aboard Mir (Mir EO-18)!

https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1940818022928675131