The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Morocco
This page contains a list of the greatest Moroccan Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 556 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Morocco. This makes Morocco the birth place of the 49th most number of Astronauts behind Iceland, and Taiwan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Moroccan Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Moroccan Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Philippe Perrin (b. 1963)
With an HPI of 36.59, Philippe Perrin is the most famous Moroccan Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Philippe Perrin (Colonel, French Air Force) (born January 6, 1963) is a French test pilot, engineer and former CNES and European Space Agency astronaut. He served as mission specialist on the STS-111 mission where he conducted three spacewalks attaching new hardware to the International Space Station and replacing a wrist joint on the Canadarm2.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Moroccan astronauts born between 1963 and 1963. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Moroccan astronauts include Philippe Perrin.
