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Kathryn D. Sullivan

1951 - Today

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Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan (born October 3, 1951) is an American geologist, oceanographer, and former NASA astronaut and US Navy officer. She was a crew member on three Space Shuttle missions. A graduate of University of California, Santa Cruz, in the United States, and Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada—where she earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in geology in 1978—Sullivan was selected as one of the six women among the 35 astronaut candidate in NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first group to include women. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kathryn D. Sullivan has received more than 526,883 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Kathryn D. Sullivan is the 133rd most popular astronaut (up from 194th in 2019), the 5,358th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,481st in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 530k

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  • 48.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Kathryn D. Sullivan ranks 133 out of 524Before her are Wubbo Ockels, Dumitru Prunariu, Rusty Schweickart, Vyacheslav Zudov, Valery Ryumin, and Gennadi Strekalov. After her are Anna Lee Fisher, Mae Jemison, Gennady Sarafanov, Barbara Morgan, Vitaly Zholobov, and Anatoly Levchenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Kathryn D. Sullivan ranks 248Before her are Phil Manzanera, Christophe de Margerie, Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed, Margo Martindale, Arnold Mühren, and Tom Noonan. After her are Phyllis Smith, David Almond, Luther Vandross, Marcel Iureș, Vladimír Špidla, and Anthony Phillips.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kathryn D. Sullivan ranks 5,358 out of 18,182Before her are Kim Raver (1969), Kim Dickens (1965), Michael Gross (1947), Samuel Brannan (1819), Ray Barretto (1929), and Vinnie Colaiuta (1956). After her are Barry Sonnenfeld (1953), Angry Grandpa (1950), William Windom (1923), Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774), Clarence Thomas (1948), and Leslie Mann (1972).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Kathryn D. Sullivan ranks 46Before her are Alfred Worden (1932), Walter Cunningham (1932), Sunita Williams (1965), Donn F. Eisele (1930), William R. Pogue (1930), and Rusty Schweickart (1935). After her are Anna Lee Fisher (1949), Mae Jemison (1956), Barbara Morgan (1951), Rick Husband (1957), William Shepherd (1949), and Peggy Whitson (1960).