ASTRONAUT

Lisa Nowak

1963 - Today

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Lisa Marie Nowak (née Caputo; born May 10, 1963) is an American aeronautical engineer, former NASA astronaut, and retired United States Navy officer. Nowak served as naval flight officer and test pilot in the Navy, and was selected by NASA for NASA Astronaut Group 16 in 1996, qualifying as a mission specialist in robotics. She flew in space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-121 mission in July 2006, when she was responsible for operating the robotic arms of the shuttle and the International Space Station. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lisa Nowak has received more than 3,106,217 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Lisa Nowak is the 358th most popular astronaut (down from 228th in 2019), the 12,941st most popular biography from United States (down from 8,928th in 2019) and the 170th most popular American Astronaut.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Lisa Nowak ranks 358 out of 556. Before her are Evgeny Tarelkin, Douglas G. Hurley, Andrei Borisenko, Leroy Chiao, Jean-François Clervoy, and James Buchli. After her are Linda M. Godwin, Alexander Gerst, Richard Mastracchio, Kathryn C. Thornton, James S. Voss, and Luca Parmitano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Lisa Nowak ranks 635. Before her are Débora Bloch, Vonda Shepard, Rudi Smidts, Dany Verlinden, Tessy Thomas, and Ricardo Peláez. After her are Diana Gansky, Joel Gretsch, Charlie Clouser, Vladimir Turchinsky, Martín Fiz, and Torben Piechnik.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lisa Nowak ranks 12,941 out of 20,380. Before her are Joseph Campanella (1924), Sarah Josepha Hale (1788), Paolo Bacigalupi (1972), Harley Jane Kozak (1957), Ann C. Crispin (1950), and Katrina Leskanich (1960). After her are Nat Hentoff (1925), Howard Georgi (1947), Kiele Sanchez (1977), Rita R. Colwell (1934), Ruth Etting (1896), and Andy Ruiz Jr. (1989).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Lisa Nowak ranks 170. Before her are Scott Altman (1959), Don L. Lind (1930), Kathryn P. Hire (1959), Douglas G. Hurley (1966), Leroy Chiao (1960), and James Buchli (1945). After her are Linda M. Godwin (1952), Richard Mastracchio (1960), Kathryn C. Thornton (1952), James S. Voss (1949), Curtis Brown (1956), and Ed Lu (1963).

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