ASTRONAUT

Jerry L. Ross

1948 - Today

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Jerry Lynn Ross (born January 20, 1948, Crown Point, Indiana) is a retired United States Air Force officer, engineer, and a former NASA astronaut. Ross is a veteran of 7 Space Shuttle missions, making him the joint record holder for most spaceflights (a record he shares with Franklin Chang-Díaz). His papers, photographs, and many personal items are in the Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives at Purdue University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jerry L. Ross has received more than 222,537 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jerry L. Ross is the 221st most popular astronaut (down from 211th in 2019), the 8,576th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,294th in 2019) and the 88th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Jerry L. Ross ranks 221 out of 556. Before him are Takao Doi, James P. Bagian, Roberto Vittori, David M. Brown, Marcos Pontes, and Bonnie J. Dunbar. After him are Joseph P. Allen, Ivan Bella, Piers Sellers, André Kuipers, Vladimir Vasyutin, and Liu Yang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Jerry L. Ross ranks 555. Before him are Annette Charles, Alfred Sant, Carlos Squeo, Tipper Gore, Diane Kurys, and Ilkka Kanerva. After him are Kunio Hatoyama, Josef Ackermann, Marañón, Nikolai Gorbachev, Ben Burtt, and Rita Barberá.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jerry L. Ross ranks 8,576 out of 20,380. Before him are Clinton Hart Merriam (1855), Jennifer Batten (1957), Alice Calhoun (1900), Miriam A. Ferguson (1875), Marston Morse (1892), and Orrin Hatch (1934). After him are Priscilla Cooper Tyler (1816), Kate Wilhelm (1928), Sly Stone (1943), Abby Dalton (1932), Doug Aldrich (1964), and Sofia Carson (1993).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Jerry L. Ross ranks 88. Before him are Joseph P. Kerwin (1932), Story Musgrave (1935), Laurel Clark (1961), James P. Bagian (1952), David M. Brown (1956), and Bonnie J. Dunbar (1949). After him are Joseph P. Allen (1937), Robert A. Parker (1936), Loren Acton (1936), Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (1963), John Oliver Creighton (1943), and Millie Hughes-Fulford (1945).

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