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Joe Engle

1932 - 2024

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Joe Henry Engle (August 26, 1932 – July 10, 2024) was an American pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut. He was the commander of two Space Shuttle missions including STS-2 in 1981, the program's second orbital flight. He also flew two flights in the Shuttle program's 1977 Approach and Landing Tests. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joe Engle has received more than 439,247 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Joe Engle is the 164th most popular astronaut (down from 161st in 2019), the 6,192nd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,708th in 2019) and the 60th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 48.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Joe Engle ranks 164 out of 556. Before him are Eileen Collins, Anatoly Artsebarsky, Valentin Lebedev, Owen Garriott, Michael López-Alegría, and Fyodor Yurchikhin. After him are Rodolfo Neri Vela, Theodore Freeman, Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov, Léopold Eyharts, Boris Morukov, and Yuri Malenchenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Joe Engle ranks 306. Before him are Clive Davis, Sándor Mátrai, John Vernon, Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, Cliff Allison, and John Flynn. After him are Eddy Wally, Carlyle Glean, Lola Beltrán, Alfonso Arau, Paul Anderson, and Masten Gregory. Among people deceased in 2024, Joe Engle ranks 256. Before him are Paul Morrissey, Bernard Pivot, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Annelie Ehrhardt, Joe Bryant, and Roy Haynes. After him are George Rhoden, Shuntarō Tanikawa, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Piedad Córdoba, Elias Khoury, and Józef Szmidt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joe Engle ranks 6,192 out of 20,380. Before him are Bobby Helms (1933), Jason Becker (1969), Lori Loughlin (1964), Lewis Arquette (1935), James Van Fleet (1892), and Laura Innes (1957). After him are Jessica Harper (1949), Hal Needham (1931), Gates McFadden (1949), Chris Jericho (1970), Michael Hardt (1960), and Damien Chazelle (1985).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Joe Engle ranks 60. Before him are Edward Gibson (1936), Peggy Whitson (1960), William Shepherd (1949), Ronald McNair (1950), Eileen Collins (1956), and Owen Garriott (1930). After him are Theodore Freeman (1930), Paul J. Weitz (1932), Anna Lee Fisher (1949), John E. Blaha (1942), Elliot See (1927), and James C. Adamson (1946).

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