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Laurel Clark

1961 - 2003

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Laurel Blair Clark (née Salton; March 10, 1961 – February 1, 2003) was an American NASA astronaut, medical doctor, United States Navy captain, and Space Shuttle mission specialist. She died along with her six fellow crew members in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laurel Clark has received more than 853,892 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Laurel Clark is the 171st most popular astronaut (up from 181st in 2019), the 7,079th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,925th in 2019) and the 70th most popular American Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 850k

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  • 45.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Laurel Clark ranks 171 out of 524Before her are Christer Fuglesang, Fyodor Yurchikhin, Theodore Freeman, Clifton Williams, Eileen Collins, and Valeri Tokarev. After her are Patrick Baudry, Yuri Malenchenko, Claudie Haigneré, Robert Crippen, Piers Sellers, and Lodewijk van den Berg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Laurel Clark ranks 231Before her are John Stockwell, Hironobu Kageyama, Florent Pagny, Juan Carlos Osorio, Zlatko Saračević, and Todd McFarlane. After her are Curt Smith, Yuri Milner, Yuri Malenchenko, Lauren Lane, József Szájer, and Birol Ünel. Among people deceased in 2003, Laurel Clark ranks 226Before her are Roy Jenkins, Charles P. Kindleberger, Alfred Aston, André Noyelle, Abdul Qadir al-Badri, and Robert John Braidwood. After her are José Juncosa, Emília Rotter, Little Eva, Tommy Seebach, Edwin Starr, and Tomáš Pospíchal.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Laurel Clark ranks 7,079 out of 18,182Before her are Anthony Kennedy (1936), Donna Mills (1940), Brenda Song (1988), Richard H. Truly (1937), Mae Questel (1908), and Leo Sexton (1909). After her are Louis Wilkins (1882), Jared Kushner (1981), Carol Alt (1960), Vincenzo Natali (1969), Beulah Bondi (1889), and Judd Apatow (1967).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Laurel Clark ranks 70Before her are Jack Lousma (1936), Joe Engle (1932), C. Gordon Fullerton (1936), Theodore Freeman (1930), Clifton Williams (1932), and Eileen Collins (1956). After her are Robert Crippen (1937), John Oliver Creighton (1943), Scott Kelly (1964), James McDivitt (1929), Joseph P. Kerwin (1932), and Michael J. Adams (1930).