ASTRONAUT

Alfred Worden

1932 - 2020

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Alfred Merrill Worden (February 7, 1932 – March 18, 2020) was an American test pilot, engineer and NASA astronaut who was command module pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. One of 24 people to have flown to the Moon, he orbited it 74 times in the command module (CM) Endeavour. Worden was born in Michigan in 1932; he spent his early years living on farms and attended the University of Michigan for one year, before securing an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Worden has received more than 708,825 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Alfred Worden is the 92nd most popular astronaut (down from 89th in 2019), the 3,652nd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,935th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Alfred Worden ranks 92 out of 556. Before him are Yevgeny Khrunov, William Anders, Anatoly Filipchenko, Donn F. Eisele, Dick Scobee, and Leonid Kizim. After him are Stuart Roosa, Aleksandr Serebrov, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Yang Liwei, Anatoly Berezovoy, and Valery Ryumin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Alfred Worden ranks 199. Before him are U. R. Ananthamurthy, King Hu, Hassan Al-Turabi, Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, Andrea Mead Lawrence, and Majel Barrett. After him are Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Mancur Olson, Karekin I, Erró, Javier Ambrois, and Saul Friedländer. Among people deceased in 2020, Alfred Worden ranks 210. Before him are David Graeber, Yuri Orlov, Ronald Harwood, Gigi Proietti, Helen Reddy, and Mario Corso. After him are Pierino Prati, Silvio Marzolini, Daria Nicolodi, Mad Mike Hoare, Lee Konitz, and Orson Bean.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alfred Worden ranks 3,652 out of 20,380. Before him are Andre Norton (1912), Jackie Cooper (1922), Lee Hazlewood (1929), Majel Barrett (1932), Max Roach (1924), and Bert Patenaude (1909). After him are Peggy March (1948), Stuart Roosa (1933), Annette O'Toole (1952), Harold Sakata (1920), Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897), and Thomas Haden Church (1960).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Alfred Worden ranks 41. Before him are Sally Ride (1951), Judith Resnik (1949), Rusty Schweickart (1935), James McDivitt (1929), Donn F. Eisele (1930), and Dick Scobee (1939). After him are Stuart Roosa (1933), Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951), Deke Slayton (1924), Scott Carpenter (1925), Gregory Jarvis (1944), and Joseph A. Walker (1921).

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