New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

ASTRONAUT

Barbara Morgan

1951 - Today

Photo of Barbara Morgan

Icon of person Barbara Morgan

Barbara Radding Morgan (born November 28, 1951) is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut. She participated in the Teacher in Space program as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger. She then trained as a mission specialist, and flew on STS-118 in August 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara Morgan has received more than 856,779 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Barbara Morgan is the 137th most popular astronaut (up from 158th in 2019), the 5,562nd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,284th in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 860k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Barbara Morgans by language


Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Barbara Morgan ranks 137 out of 524Before her are Valery Ryumin, Gennadi Strekalov, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Anna Lee Fisher, Mae Jemison, and Gennady Sarafanov. After her are Vitaly Zholobov, Anatoly Levchenko, Rick Husband, William Shepherd, Peggy Whitson, and Vance D. Brand.

Most Popular Astronauts in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Barbara Morgan ranks 258Before her are Marcel Iureș, Vladimír Špidla, Anthony Phillips, Radia Perlman, Jalil Zandi, and Tom Hamilton. After her are Claudio Baglioni, Guy Lafleur, Tatyana Kazankina, V. S. Ramachandran, Ajahn Brahm, and Tom Wopat.

Others Born in 1951

Go to all Rankings

In United States

Among people born in United States, Barbara Morgan ranks 5,562 out of 18,182Before her are Dorothy Arzner (1897), David Ellefson (1964), Loretta Lynn (1932), Almon Brown Strowger (1839), Alvin Ailey (1931), and Lewis Powell (1844). After her are Lee Meriwether (1935), Ancel Keys (1904), Stan Kenton (1911), Will Rogers (1879), Tony Accardo (1906), and Ray Allen (1975).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Barbara Morgan ranks 49Before her are Donn F. Eisele (1930), William R. Pogue (1930), Rusty Schweickart (1935), Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951), Anna Lee Fisher (1949), and Mae Jemison (1956). After her are Rick Husband (1957), William Shepherd (1949), Peggy Whitson (1960), Vance D. Brand (1931), Ronald McNair (1950), and Michael R. Clifford (1952).