CD-B DIRECTORY

                        COSMIC DATA-BANK

PROJECT 4:    ASTRONAUTS AND COSMONAUTS

In this fourth project in heliocentric astrobiology, the focus is on the world's astronauts and cosmonauts. NASA has been the primary source of information about the births of these adventurous women and men who hail from many different countries. In total I have been able to collect the birth information for 386 of these courageous individuals. Some of them are no longer with us and this research project is dedicated to their memory. The member of this elite group with the most life experience is John Glenn Jr. born in 1921 and the member with the least life experience was born in 1986 covering a 65 year span of time

The first human in space was Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. He was launched into space aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961, from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, at 09:07h Moscow time. His flight lasted 108 minutes and began the Space Age.

Yuri Gagarin was killed in the crash of an MIG-15 fighter jet on March 7, 1968. Cosmonaut Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 in a small village 100 miles east of Moscow and was only 34 years of age when he died in the crash of the experimental jet he was testing. Two photos of him, one as a young cosmonaut and the other as a Russian hero, are shown below with his Butterfly Type heliogram. The photos are from Wikipedia.

The heliogram shown above is set for noon on the day of his birth as I do not have a birth-time for Yuri Gagarin. It shows the arrangement of the planets around the Sun when he was born. He has a BUTTERFLY type heliogram. You may want to come back and look at his heliogram again after you have looked at the results for the other 386 astronauts and cosmonauts.

1. DISTRIBUTION OF THE SUN

The maximum peak of 12% of the group total for the Sun is seen in sector 5 and the minimum of 4% of the group total is seen in sector 9. From a heliocentric view the Earth would find its highest count in sector 11 and its lowest count in sector 3.

2. MERCURY in the 12 Sectors

Mercury completes an elliptical orbit around the Sun every 88 days making 4 complete trips around the Sun once every Earth year. Mercury does not spend an equal amount of time in each of the 12 sectors and this requires compensation. The final corrected sector counts for Mercury are listed below.

• Sector 1 - 42                Sector 2 - 70               Sector 3 - 77
• Sector 4 - 44                Sector 5 - 60               Sector 6 - 31
• Sector 7 - 54                Sector 8 - 43               Sector 9 - 43
• Sector 10 - 48              Sector 11 - 41              Sector 12 - 49

There is a higher percentage count in sectors 2, 3, 5 and 7. The sectors with the fewest counts are sectors 1, 6 and 11. The largest group of astronauts and cosmonauts have Mercury in sectors 3 and 2. The number of astronauts and cosmonauts in the study is 386.

3. DISTRIBUTION OF VENUS

The sector counts for Venus in the heliograms of astronauts and cosmonauts are as follows:

• Sector 1 - 39                    Sector 2 - 30                    Sector 3 - 33
• Sector 4 - 36                    Sector 5 - 29                    Sector 6 - 35
• Sector 7 - 27                    Sector 8 - 25                    Sector 9 - 38
• Sector 10 - 35                  Sector 11 - 30                   Sector 12 - 29

Peaks are seen in Sectors 1 & 9 and Venus is seen less frequently in Sectors 7 and 8 in the heliograms of the space explorers.

4. DISTRIBUTION OF MARS

The distribution of Mars in the sectors for these 386 astronauts and cosmonauts is shown in the table below. Mars orbits the Sun on an elliptical path and consequently does not spend the same number of days in each sector. This has been corrected in the table below.

The highest count per day is seen in sector 10 and the lowest in sector 3.

5. HELIOGRAM TYPES

For a review of the heliogram types use the following link: Heliogram Types

The table lists the heliogram types, the count and the count as a percentage of the total. For a comparison to the heliogram types in all the other projects use the following link: Summary

Many of the names of astronauts and cosmonauts are familiar to people around the world and the following list is but a few of them. I apologize if one of your particular favorites is not included. The name is followed by the birth information (mm-dd-yyyy), position of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars and their type of heliogram. The planetary positions are in ssdd notation (sector and degree). Mercury = 424 indicates that Mercury was in sector 4 at the 24th degree when Buzz Aldrin was born. Earth = 1113 means that Earth was in sector 11 at the 13th degree when Neil Armstrong was born.

The figures in bold type are in sectors that have higher than expected counts for a planet.  Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., and Story Musgrave have 3 of their 4 planets in sectors of higher than expected counts. Three of the four women listed in the above table, Christa C. McAuliffe, Julie Payette, and Sally K. Ride, had none of their natal planets in a high count sector.

6. PLANETARY PATTERNS

Here are the counts for the five most frequently noted planetary patterns and the percentage seen in the heliograms of these space pioneers. For a review of the major planetary patterns use this link: Patterns

To see a summary of the planetary patterns for all the projects use this link: SUMMARY