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Charles Duke

1935 - Today

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Charles Moss Duke Jr. (born October 3, 1935) is an American former astronaut, United States Air Force (USAF) officer and test pilot. As Lunar Module pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972, he became the 10th and youngest person to walk on the Moon, at age 36 years and 201 days.A 1957 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Duke joined the USAF and completed advanced flight training on the F-86 Sabre at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia, where he was a distinguished graduate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Duke has received more than 1,292,747 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Charles Duke is the 67th most popular astronaut (down from 38th in 2019), the 3,275th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,237th in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 53.26

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  • 39

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  • 3.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Charles Duke ranks 67 out of 524Before him are Ronald Evans, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Dick Scobee, Georgi Ivanov, Aleksei Gubarev, and Viktor Savinykh. After him are Joseph A. Walker, Georgy Beregovoy, Rakesh Sharma, Boris Volynov, William Anders, and Gregory Jarvis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Charles Duke ranks 152Before him are Geoffrey Lewis, Oleg Tabakov, Yvon Douis, Hans Tilkowski, Vasily Livanov, and Milkha Singh. After him are Jack Charlton, Shūji Terayama, Tamara Smirnova, Lola Novaković, Ken Kercheval, and Dudley Moore.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Duke ranks 3,275 out of 18,182Before him are Richie Ginther (1930), Dylan McDermott (1961), Tyga (1989), Eric Roth (1945), Jay Rockefeller (1937), and Dan Blocker (1928). After him are Maurice Hilleman (1919), Lawrence Block (1938), Louis Farrakhan (1933), Tate Donovan (1963), Richard Axel (1946), and Dakota Johnson (1989).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Charles Duke ranks 34Before him are Michael J. Smith (1945), Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929), Sally Ride (1951), Judith Resnik (1949), Ronald Evans (1933), and Dick Scobee (1939). After him are Joseph A. Walker (1921), Gregory Jarvis (1944), Deke Slayton (1924), Scott Carpenter (1925), Stuart Roosa (1933), and Alfred Worden (1932).