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Joseph A. Walker

1921 - 1966

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Joseph Albert Walker (February 20, 1921 – June 8, 1966) (Capt, USAF) was an American World War II pilot, experimental physicist, NASA test pilot, and astronaut who was the first person to fly an airplane to space. He was one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and NASA. In 1961, Walker became the first human in the mesosphere when piloting Flight 35, and in 1963, Walker made three flights above 50 miles, thereby qualifying as an astronaut according to the United States definition of the boundary of space. The latter two, X-15 Flights 90 and 91, also surpassed the Kármán line, the internationally accepted boundary of 100 kilometers (62.14 miles). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph A. Walker has received more than 429,826 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Joseph A. Walker is the 68th most popular astronaut (up from 74th in 2019), the 3,301st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,494th in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Astronaut.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Joseph A. Walker ranks 68 out of 524. Before him are Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Dick Scobee, Georgi Ivanov, Aleksei Gubarev, Viktor Savinykh, and Charles Duke. After him are Georgy Beregovoy, Rakesh Sharma, Boris Volynov, William Anders, Gregory Jarvis, and Yevgeny Khrunov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Joseph A. Walker ranks 165. Before him are Violette Szabo, Gaston Reiff, Hans Albert, Gitta Sereny, Ilse Aichinger, and Louis Lachenal. After him are Georgy Beregovoy, Silvio Gazzaniga, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Daniel Gélin, Guy Laroche, and Walter Laqueur. Among people deceased in 1966, Joseph A. Walker ranks 94. Before him are Arthur Percival, Nikolay Cherkasov, Camilo Torres Restrepo, John of Shanghai and San Francisco, Alfred P. Sloan, and Gaspar Cassadó. After him are Helen Kane, Heimito von Doderer, Sylvère Maes, Stanisław Mikołajczyk, Natacha Rambova, and Sutan Sjahrir.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph A. Walker ranks 3,301 out of 18,182. Before him are Suzanne Vega (1959), Benjamin Bratt (1963), Shere Hite (1942), Max Roach (1924), David Lee Roth (1954), and John Paine (1870). After him are Nathan Homer Knorr (1905), Tom Holland (1943), Doris Hart (1925), Benny Golson (1929), Marian Anderson (1897), and Crispin Glover (1964).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Joseph A. Walker ranks 35. Before him are Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929), Sally Ride (1951), Judith Resnik (1949), Ronald Evans (1933), Dick Scobee (1939), and Charles Duke (1935). After him are Gregory Jarvis (1944), Deke Slayton (1924), Scott Carpenter (1925), Stuart Roosa (1933), Alfred Worden (1932), and Walter Cunningham (1932).

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