National Astronaut Day 2024

National Astronaut Day 2024. National astronaut day just passed, a day which acknowledges those audacious few who have, in reality, gone to infinity. 12,286 likes · 20,778 talking about this.

Such is the plight of butch wilmore and suni williams, two astronauts who have been stranded on the international space station ( iss) since docking there on june 6th. In keeping with the tradition of other astronaut and space related celebrations, may 5th was selected for this significant date in history in 1961 when astronaut alan bartlett shepard.