Alan G. Poindexter

Alan Goodwin "Dex" Poindexter was an American naval officer and a NASA astronaut. Poindexter was selected in the 1998 NASA Group (G17) and went into orbit aboard Space Shuttle missions STS-122 and STS-131.

5 November 1961

Born on the same birth day (5 November): Alexei Yashin • Andrei Korobeinik • Anna Maria van Schurman • Don Falcone • Edwin Flack • John Brown (essayist) • Jonny Greenwood • Joyce Maynard • Keith McLeod • Maarten Tjallingii • Mo Gaffney • Nayim • O. J. Mayo • Oleg Blokhin • Robert Patrick • Sergei Berezin • Seth Gilliam • Thorbjørn Jagland • William Bland

Born in the same month (November 1961): Calvin Johnson (musician) • Edward Knight (composer) • Innocent Egbunike • Ivory (wrestler) • Jeff Tedford • João Pinto (footballer, born 1961) • Meg Ryan • Merv Hughes • Nigel Worthington • Robert Stethem • Rudolf Grimm