ASTRONAUT

John Young

1930 - 2018

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John Watts Young (September 24, 1930 – January 5, 2018) was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the 9th person to walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. He is the only astronaut to fly on four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo command and service module, the Apollo Lunar Module and the Space Shuttle. Before becoming an astronaut, Young received his Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and joined the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Young has received more than 75,960 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). John Young is the 43rd most popular astronaut (down from 35th in 2019), the 2,123rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,085th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Astronaut.

John Young is most famous for being the ninth person to walk on the moon and the first person to fly six missions in space.

Memorability Metrics

  • 76k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, John Young ranks 43 out of 556. Before him are Bruce McCandless II, Mirosław Hermaszewski, Toktar Aubakirov, Vladislav Volkov, Valeri Kubasov, and Yury Romanenko. After him are Sergei Krikalev, Viktor Patsayev, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Ellison Onizuka, and Walter Cunningham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, John Young ranks 124. Before him are Akiyuki Nosaka, Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, Pierre Bergé, Vilma Espín, Omara Portuondo, and Ornette Coleman. After him are Marion Zimmer Bradley, Miljan Miljanić, Ted Hughes, Oleg Popov, Georgiy Daneliya, and Michel Rocard. Among people deceased in 2018, John Young ranks 90. Before him are Aharon Appelfeld, Fernando del Paso, Keith O'Brien, Oliver Dragojević, Kim Jong-pil, and Oskar Gröning. After him are Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, Kira Muratova, Adem Demaçi, Belisario Betancur, Tsukasa Hosaka, and Ermanno Olmi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Young ranks 2,123 out of 20,380. Before him are Oscar Robertson (1938), Michael Jeter (1952), Alex Borstein (1971), Joseph Greenberg (1915), Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), and Cochise (1805). After him are Ricky Nelson (1940), Bill Withers (1938), Thomas Cech (1947), Jim Parsons (1973), Jennifer Beals (1963), and John Cusack (1966).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, John Young ranks 23. Before him are Edgar Mitchell (1930), Michael P. Anderson (1959), Ken Mattingly (1936), Charles Duke (1935), Fred Haise (1933), and Bruce McCandless II (1937). After him are Ellison Onizuka (1946), Walter Cunningham (1932), Wally Schirra (1923), Ronald Evans (1933), Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929), and Christa McAuliffe (1948).

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