ASTRONAUT

Ken Mattingly

1936 - 2023

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Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II (March 17, 1936 – October 31, 2023) was an American aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, rear admiral in the United States Navy, and astronaut who flew on Apollo 16 and Space Shuttle STS-4 and STS-51-C missions. Mattingly was scheduled to fly on the Apollo 13 mission, but three days before launch, he was replaced by Jack Swigert because he was exposed to German measles (which Mattingly did not contract). Mattingly flew as Command Module Pilot for Apollo 16 and made 64 lunar orbits, making him one of 24 people to fly to the Moon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ken Mattingly has received more than 2,255,915 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Ken Mattingly is the 32nd most popular astronaut (up from 47th in 2019), the 1,793rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,510th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.47

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  • 4.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Ken Mattingly ranks 32 out of 556. Before him are Ed White, Aleksandr Viktorenko, Roger B. Chaffee, Edgar Mitchell, Michael P. Anderson, and Georgy Dobrovolsky. After him are Charles Duke, Ilan Ramon, Valery Bykovsky, Fred Haise, Bruce McCandless II, and Mirosław Hermaszewski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Ken Mattingly ranks 102. Before him are Dean Stockwell, A. B. Yehoshua, Wolf Biermann, Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, Wilfried Martens, and Roy Emerson. After him are Paul L. Smith, Nicos Poulantzas, Théo Sarapo, Henry Lee Lucas, Glenda Jackson, and Aleida March. Among people deceased in 2023, Ken Mattingly ranks 115. Before him are Oleg Protopopov, Ian Wilmut, Lee Sun-kyun, Torben Ulrich, Jean-Pierre Jabouille, and Ruth Fuchs. After him are Ben Ferencz, Petar Zhekov, Juanita Castro, Daisaku Ikeda, Tom Courtney, and Reino Börjesson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ken Mattingly ranks 1,793 out of 20,380. Before him are Frank Oppenheimer (1912), Gregg Popovich (1949), James Oliver Curwood (1878), Chadwick Boseman (1977), Robert Smithson (1938), and Clara Bow (1905). After him are Larry Scott (1938), Elizabeth Montgomery (1933), Temple Grandin (1947), Eugene Fama (1939), "Weird Al" Yankovic (1959), and Jim Caviezel (1968).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Ken Mattingly ranks 19. Before him are Alan Bean (1932), Gus Grissom (1926), Ed White (1930), Roger B. Chaffee (1935), Edgar Mitchell (1930), and Michael P. Anderson (1959). After him are Charles Duke (1935), Fred Haise (1933), Bruce McCandless II (1937), John Young (1930), Ellison Onizuka (1946), and Walter Cunningham (1932).

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