ASTRONAUT

Donald Pettit

1955 - Today

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Donald Roy Pettit (born April 20, 1955) is an American astronaut and chemical engineer best known for his orbital astrophotography and in-space inventions such as the Zero G Coffee Cup, which received the first ever patent for an object invented in space. He is a veteran of two long-duration stays aboard the International Space Station (with a third stay currently underway), one Space Shuttle mission and a six-week expedition to find meteorites in Antarctica. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Donald Pettit has received more than 256,051 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Donald Pettit is the 297th most popular astronaut (up from 383rd in 2019), the 11,329th most popular biography from United States (up from 12,930th in 2019) and the 130th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 41.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Donald Pettit ranks 297 out of 556. Before him are Jeffrey Williams, Umberto Guidoni, William H. Dana, Sergei Treshchov, Donald E. Williams, and Susan Helms. After him are David M. Walker, Aidyn Aimbetov, Pamela Melroy, Alan G. Poindexter, John Herrington, and Reinhold Ewald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Donald Pettit ranks 531. Before him are Miloš Hrstić, Cundi, Yolanda King, Detlef Michel, Oksana Shvets, and Hiroshi Hayano. After him are Corey Burton, Stephen Walt, Karl Del'Haye, Eraldo Pecci, Élie Baup, and Klaus Siebert.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Donald Pettit ranks 11,329 out of 20,380. Before him are John T. Dillon (1876), Chuck Liddell (1969), Paul Burke (1926), Ernest Tubb (1914), Maya Lin (1959), and Sam McMurray (1952). After him are Lindsey Stirling (1986), Elaine Pagels (1943), Chad Lowe (1968), Lou Harrison (1917), Leon Ames (1902), and Audrey Totter (1917).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Donald Pettit ranks 130. Before him are Steven Lindsey (1960), Christopher Ferguson (1961), Jeffrey Williams (1958), William H. Dana (1930), Donald E. Williams (1942), and Susan Helms (1958). After him are David M. Walker (1944), Pamela Melroy (1961), Alan G. Poindexter (1961), John Herrington (1958), Loren Shriver (1944), and Robert L. Stewart (1942).

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