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Barbara Morgan

1951 - Today

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Barbara Radding Morgan (born November 28, 1951) is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut. She participated in the Teacher in Space Project as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger. In 1998, eight years after the Teacher in Space Project had ended, she was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate, training as a mission specialist; astronaut Morgan flew on STS-118 in August 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara Morgan has received more than 926,800 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Barbara Morgan is the 195th most popular astronaut (down from 137th in 2019), the 7,313th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,550th in 2019) and the 74th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 930k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Barbara Morgan ranks 195 out of 556. Before her are Mamoru Mohri, Jack Lousma, Gerald Carr, C. Gordon Fullerton, Aleksandr Kaleri, and Robert Crippen. After her are Samantha Cristoforetti, Jim Wetherbee, Paolo Nespoli, Dale Gardner, Pedro Duque, and Michael J. Adams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Barbara Morgan ranks 383. Before her are León Gieco, André Hazes, Bindu, Luc Millecamps, Eva Rueber-Staier, and Nana Patekar. After her are Thibault Damour, Gerrie Knetemann, Alexander Rosenbaum, Sally Mann, Spike Edney, and Ivar Formo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barbara Morgan ranks 7,313 out of 20,380. Before her are Buddy DeFranco (1923), William J. Casey (1913), Tony Trabert (1930), Nancy Walker (1922), Patrick St. Esprit (1954), and Patrick Rothfuss (1973). After her are Beverly Sills (1929), Herschell Gordon Lewis (1926), Jeffrey Combs (1954), Jane Pierce (1806), John Hawkes (1959), and Anna Sui (1952).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Barbara Morgan ranks 74. Before her are Clifton Williams (1932), José M. Hernández (1962), Jack Lousma (1936), Gerald Carr (1932), C. Gordon Fullerton (1936), and Robert Crippen (1937). After her are Jim Wetherbee (1952), Dale Gardner (1948), Michael J. Adams (1930), Rick Husband (1957), Henry Hartsfield (1933), and Charles Bassett (1931).

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