ASTRONAUT

Bonnie J. Dunbar

1949 - Today

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Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar (born March 3, 1949) is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut. She flew on five Space Shuttle missions between 1985 and 1998, including two dockings with the Mir space station. A graduate of the University of Washington, where she earned a Master of Science degree in ceramics engineering, Dunbar became a senior research engineer in Rockwell International's Space Division, where she designed the equipment and manufacturing processes used to fabricate the ceramic tiles used in the Space Shuttle thermal protection system. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bonnie J. Dunbar has received more than 181,448 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Bonnie J. Dunbar is the 220th most popular astronaut (down from 214th in 2019), the 8,482nd most popular biography from United States (up from 8,538th in 2019) and the 87th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Bonnie J. Dunbar ranks 220 out of 556. Before her are Hans Schlegel, Takao Doi, James P. Bagian, Roberto Vittori, David M. Brown, and Marcos Pontes. After her are Jerry L. Ross, Joseph P. Allen, Ivan Bella, Piers Sellers, André Kuipers, and Vladimir Vasyutin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Bonnie J. Dunbar ranks 533. Before her are Gennady Novitsky, Robert Pickton, Dušan Galis, Marion Hänsel, Pauline Marois, and Jeannie Berlin. After her are Enrique Wolff, Jan Egil Storholt, Ian Charleson, Christos Papadimitriou, Emma Kirkby, and Sanja Iveković.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bonnie J. Dunbar ranks 8,482 out of 20,380. Before her are Helen Slater (1963), Annette Charles (1948), Jay Silvester (1937), Thurston Moore (1958), Howard P. Robertson (1903), and David Clennon (1943). After her are Jaime Pressly (1977), Kayden Kross (1985), Adam Scott (1973), Richard Evans Schultes (1915), Lin Carter (1930), and Dan Hartman (1950).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Bonnie J. Dunbar ranks 87. Before her are Catherine Coleman (1960), Joseph P. Kerwin (1932), Story Musgrave (1935), Laurel Clark (1961), James P. Bagian (1952), and David M. Brown (1956). After her are Jerry L. Ross (1948), Joseph P. Allen (1937), Robert A. Parker (1936), Loren Acton (1936), Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (1963), and John Oliver Creighton (1943).

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