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C. Gordon Fullerton

1936 - 2013

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Charles Gordon Fullerton (October 11, 1936 – August 21, 2013) was a United States Air Force colonel, a USAF and NASA astronaut, and a research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California. His assignments included a variety of flight research and support activities piloting NASA's B-52 launch aircraft, the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), and other multi-engine and high performance aircraft. Fullerton logged more than 380 hours in space flight, and was a NASA astronaut from September 1969 until November 1986 when he joined the research pilot office at Dryden. In July 1988, he completed a 30-year career with the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of C. Gordon Fullerton has received more than 129,940 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 25 in 2019). C. Gordon Fullerton is the 164th most popular astronaut (down from 159th in 2019), the 6,807th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,299th in 2019) and the 66th most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, C. Gordon Fullerton ranks 164 out of 524Before him are Edward Gibson, Paul J. Weitz, Jack Lousma, Joe Engle, Reinhard Furrer, and Aleksandr Viktorenko. After him are Christer Fuglesang, Fyodor Yurchikhin, Theodore Freeman, Clifton Williams, Eileen Collins, and Valeri Tokarev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, C. Gordon Fullerton ranks 366Before him are Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, Trevor Taylor, Marin Sorescu, Jack Lousma, Míriam Colón, and Ashley Cooper. After him are Pen Sovan, Carlos Mota Pinto, Abraham Lempel, Larry McMurtry, Martin Gilbert, and Oreste Corbatta. Among people deceased in 2013, C. Gordon Fullerton ranks 312Before him are Ole Ernst, Steve Forrest, George Jones, Tom Krause, Phil Ramone, and George Herbig. After him are Imants Ziedonis, Giovanni Cheli, Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Jean Marcel Honoré, Max Jakobson, and Sakine Cansız.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, C. Gordon Fullerton ranks 6,807 out of 18,182Before him are Dizzy Reed (1963), Kate Bosworth (1983), Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835), Charles Willson Peale (1741), Lee Barnes (1906), and Telma Hopkins (1948). After him are Annie Easley (1933), Judy Greer (1975), Julia Ward Howe (1819), Daniel Pearl (1963), David Ray Griffin (1939), and Louis Clarke (1901).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, C. Gordon Fullerton ranks 66Before him are Story Musgrave (1935), Owen Garriott (1930), Edward Gibson (1936), Paul J. Weitz (1932), Jack Lousma (1936), and Joe Engle (1932). After him are Theodore Freeman (1930), Clifton Williams (1932), Eileen Collins (1956), Laurel Clark (1961), Robert Crippen (1937), and John Oliver Creighton (1943).