ASTRONAUT

Edgar Mitchell

1930 - 2016

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Edgar Dean "Ed" Mitchell (September 17, 1930 – February 4, 2016) was a United States Navy officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, ufologist, and NASA astronaut. As the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14 in 1971 he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, and was the sixth person to walk on the Moon. Before becoming an astronaut, Mitchell earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Carnegie Institute of Technology and entered the United States Navy in 1952. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgar Mitchell has received more than 1,363,247 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Edgar Mitchell is the 29th most popular astronaut (down from 25th in 2019), the 1,605th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,589th in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Astronaut.

Edgar Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon. He is most famous for being the sixth man to walk on the moon.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Edgar Mitchells by language

Over the past year Edgar Mitchell has had the most page views in the with 122,926 views, followed by German (11,121), and Spanish (8,833). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (97.46%), Latin (93.84%), and Simple English (87.04%)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Edgar Mitchell ranks 29 out of 556. Before him are Alan Bean, Gus Grissom, Pavel Popovich, Ed White, Aleksandr Viktorenko, and Roger B. Chaffee. After him are Michael P. Anderson, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Ken Mattingly, Charles Duke, Ilan Ramon, and Valery Bykovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Edgar Mitchell ranks 94. Before him are Son Sen, Ernst Albrecht, Ed White, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Michal Kováč, and Mario Adorf. After him are Hilderaldo Bellini, Frank Drake, Harvey Milk, Itamar Franco, Mauro Ramos, and Martin Karplus. Among people deceased in 2016, Edgar Mitchell ranks 86. Before him are Corry Brokken, Ashraf Pahlavi, Claude Gensac, Takahito, Prince Mikasa, Michal Kováč, and Chris Amon. After him are Bata Živojinović, Kenny Baker, Meir Dagan, Yasuo Takamori, David Hamilton, and Seymour Papert.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edgar Mitchell ranks 1,605 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael Moore (1954), James Ivory (1928), Beyoncé (1981), Steve Ditko (1927), Karen Grassle (1942), and Barbara Hershey (1948). After him are Bill Haley (1925), James McKeen Cattell (1860), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), and Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Edgar Mitchell ranks 17. Before him are Frank Borman (1928), Jim Lovell (1928), Alan Bean (1932), Gus Grissom (1926), Ed White (1930), and Roger B. Chaffee (1935). After him are Michael P. Anderson (1959), Ken Mattingly (1936), Charles Duke (1935), Fred Haise (1933), Bruce McCandless II (1937), and John Young (1930).

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