ASTRONAUT

Dick Scobee

1939 - 1986

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Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee (May 19, 1939 – January 28, 1986) was an American pilot, engineer, and astronaut. He was killed while commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986, which suffered catastrophic booster failure during launch of the STS-51-L mission. Scobee held a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering, graduating from the University of Arizona in 1965. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dick Scobee has received more than 1,563,154 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Dick Scobee is the 90th most popular astronaut (down from 63rd in 2019), the 3,487th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,073rd in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 53.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Dick Scobee ranks 90 out of 556. Before him are Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, James McDivitt, Yevgeny Khrunov, William Anders, Anatoly Filipchenko, and Donn F. Eisele. After him are Leonid Kizim, Alfred Worden, Stuart Roosa, Aleksandr Serebrov, Kathryn D. Sullivan, and Yang Liwei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Dick Scobee ranks 201. Before him are Zeng Qinghong, Joachim Yhombi-Opango, Flavio Cotti, Brenda Vaccaro, John Tong Hon, and Branko Kostić. After him are Jerry Brudos, Nông Đức Mạnh, Brigitte Fontaine, Paul Gleason, James Fox, and Ole Ellefsæter. Among people deceased in 1986, Dick Scobee ranks 111. Before him are Raúl Prebisch, Princess Anne of Orléans, Judith Resnik, Scatman Crothers, Megumu Tamura, and Vitaly Abalakov. After him are Fumiko Enchi, James H. Wilkinson, Oscar Zariski, Josef Kammhuber, Anatoly Marchenko, and Helen B. Taussig.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dick Scobee ranks 3,487 out of 20,380. Before him are Mary Tyler Moore (1936), Jonathan Groff (1985), Vinnie Vincent (1952), Bonnie Hunt (1961), Besse Cooper (1896), and Seymour Cassel (1935). After him are Del Shannon (1934), Maryanne Trump Barry (1937), Clarence Zener (1905), Lead Belly (1888), Michelle Monaghan (1976), and Jerry Brudos (1939).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Dick Scobee ranks 40. Before him are Mary L. Cleave (1947), Sally Ride (1951), Judith Resnik (1949), Rusty Schweickart (1935), James McDivitt (1929), and Donn F. Eisele (1930). After him are Alfred Worden (1932), Stuart Roosa (1933), Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951), Deke Slayton (1924), Scott Carpenter (1925), and Gregory Jarvis (1944).

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