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Currently, Mike Smith is 78 years, 11 months and 20 days old. Mike Smith will celebrate 79rd birthday on a Tuesday 30th of April 2024. Below we countdown to Mike Smith upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Mike Smith |
Occupation | Astronaut |
Age | 78 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
Born | April 30, 1945 (North Carolina) |
Birthday | April 30 |
Town/City | North Carolina |
Nationality | North Carolina |
Mike Smithโs zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Mike Smith was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
Remembered for piloting the Space Shuttle Challenger during its doomed STS-51-L mission, this NASA astronaut had previously served in the Vietnam War and worked as a United States Navy test pilot.
After graduating from the United States Naval Academy in the late 1960s, he trained as a naval aviator before joining the NASA astronaut program in 1980.
He was a posthumous recipient of both the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and the Defense Distinguished Service Medal. During his lifetime, he was awarded the Navy Distinguished Flying Cross and several Air Medals.
He was born in Beaufort, North Carolina, and he died in the sky above Cape Canaveral, Florida, at the age of forty.
He was portrayed by actor Brian Kerwin in a 1990 television movie about the Challenger disaster.