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Leland D. Melvin

1964 - Today

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Leland Devon Melvin (born February 15, 1964) is an American engineer and a retired NASA astronaut. He served on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis as a mission specialist on STS-122, and as mission specialist 1 on STS-129. Melvin was named the NASA Associate Administrator for Education in October 2010. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leland D. Melvin has received more than 816,724 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Leland D. Melvin is the 519th most popular astronaut (down from 494th in 2019), the 956th most popular biography from Greece (up from 15,152nd in 2019) and the most popular Greek Astronaut.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Leland D. Melvin ranks 519 out of 556. Before him are Charles D. Gemar, Daniel T. Barry, Mark T. Vande Hei, Stanley G. Love, Sergey Ryazansky, and Loral O'Hara. After him are Norishige Kanai, Donald A. Thomas, Scott E. Parazynski, Michael S. Hopkins, Sidney M. Gutierrez, and Gregory J. Harbaugh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Leland D. Melvin ranks 866. Before him are Carolyn Waldo, Anthony Scaramucci, Vasilios Kotronias, Amor Towles, Cheryl Miller, and Christer Majbäck. After him are Corrado Sanguineti, TobyMac, Mikko Kolehmainen, Stephen Frick, Zsolt Gyulay, and Lydia de Vega.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Leland D. Melvin ranks 956 out of 1,024. Before him are Frank Klopas (1966), Dimosthenis Tampakos (1976), Sofia Bekatorou (1977), Giannis Maniatis (1986), Vasilios Kotronias (1964), and Georgios Fotakis (1981). After him are Marina Satti (1986), Anastasios Douvikas (1999), Ilias Atmatsidis (1969), Eleftherios Petrounias (1990), Kostas Antetokounmpo (1997), and Stavros Lambrinidis (1962).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Greece

Among astronauts born in Greece, Leland D. Melvin ranks 1. 

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