ASTRONAUT

Ellison Onizuka

1946 - 1986

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Ellison Shoji Onizuka (Japanese: エリソン・ショージ・オニヅカ, 鬼塚 承次, Hepburn: Onizuka Shōji, June 24, 1946 – January 28, 1986) was an American astronaut, engineer, and U.S. Air Force flight test engineer from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C. He died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, on which he was serving as Mission Specialist for mission STS-51-L. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ellison Onizuka has received more than 1,443,240 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Ellison Onizuka is the 48th most popular astronaut (down from 36th in 2019), the 2,533rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,092nd in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Ellison Onizuka ranks 48 out of 556. Before him are Yury Romanenko, John Young, Sergei Krikalev, Viktor Patsayev, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, and Vladimir Dzhanibekov. After him are Walter Cunningham, Vladimir Shatalov, Kalpana Chawla, Wally Schirra, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, and Valentin Bondarenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Ellison Onizuka ranks 189. Before him are Bernd Hölzenbein, Joe Dante, Willy van der Kuijlen, Sawao Kato, Alpha Oumar Konaré, and Lucien Van Impe. After him are André Dussollier, Irena Szewińska, Maria Bethânia, Matthieu Ricard, Jean-Pierre Jarier, and Claire Denis. Among people deceased in 1986, Ellison Onizuka ranks 82. Before him are André Leroi-Gourhan, Aleksandr Akimov, Hermann Gmeiner, John Bagot Glubb, Elsa Lanchester, and Thierry Sabine. After him are Christopher Isherwood, Yaroslav Stetsko, Gia Carangi, Henri Toivonen, Gabdulkhay Akhatov, and Mart Stam.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ellison Onizuka ranks 2,533 out of 20,380. Before him are Donald Judd (1928), Archie Shepp (1937), James Franco (1978), Peter Cetera (1944), Dusty Hill (1949), and John L. Sullivan (1858). After him are Dennis Farina (1944), Barbara Eden (1931), Chris Pine (1980), Willy DeVille (1950), Tom Sizemore (1961), and Xander Berkeley (1955).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Ellison Onizuka ranks 24. Before him are Michael P. Anderson (1959), Ken Mattingly (1936), Charles Duke (1935), Fred Haise (1933), Bruce McCandless II (1937), and John Young (1930). After him are Walter Cunningham (1932), Wally Schirra (1923), Ronald Evans (1933), Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929), Christa McAuliffe (1948), and Karol J. Bobko (1937).

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