The Most Famous

ASTRONAUTS from Romania

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This page contains a list of the greatest Romanian Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 556 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Romania. This makes Romania the birth place of the 33rd most number of Astronauts behind Azerbaijan, and Costa Rica.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Romanian Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Romanian Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Dumitru Prunariu (b. 1952)

With an HPI of 50.30, Dumitru Prunariu is the most famous Romanian Astronaut.  His biography has been translated into 32 different languages on wikipedia.

Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu (Romanian pronunciation: [duˈmitru doˈrin pruˈnarju] ; born 27 September 1952) is a Romanian cosmonaut. He flew in space aboard Soyuz 40 spacecraft and Salyut 6 space laboratory. He teamed with the Soviet cosmonaut Leonid Popov. The backup crew was made of Romanian candidate cosmonaut Dumitru Dediu and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Romanian astronauts born between 1952 and 1952. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Romanian astronauts include Dumitru Prunariu.

Deceased Romanian Astronauts

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