ASTRONAUT

Marcos Pontes

1963 - Today

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Marcos Cesar Pontes (born 11 March 1963) is a Brazilian Air Force pilot, engineer, AEB astronaut, politician and author. He became the first South American and the first Lusophone to go into space when he docked onto the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on 30 March 2006. He is the only Brazilian to have completed the NASA astronaut training program, although he switched to training in Russia after NASA's Space Shuttle program encountered problems. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcos Pontes has received more than 206,770 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Marcos Pontes is the 219th most popular astronaut (up from 230th in 2019), the 710th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 679th in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Marcos Pontes ranks 219 out of 556. Before him are Laurel Clark, Hans Schlegel, Takao Doi, James P. Bagian, Roberto Vittori, and David M. Brown. After him are Bonnie J. Dunbar, Jerry L. Ross, Joseph P. Allen, Ivan Bella, Piers Sellers, and André Kuipers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Marcos Pontes ranks 352. Before him are Aubrey de Grey, Prince Faisal bin Hussein, Blanca Portillo, Sükhbaataryn Batbold, Heino Ferch, and Roland Nilsson. After him are Hennadiy Lytovchenko, Helen Slater, Johnny Marr, Jarvis Cocker, Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg, and Li Shufu.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Marcos Pontes ranks 710 out of 2,236. Before him are Herbert MacKay-Fraser (1922), Roberto Gomes Pedrosa (1913), Débora Falabella (1979), Índio (1931), Edu Manga (1967), and Nenê (1981). After him are Ferreira Gullar (1930), Valdir Espinosa (1947), Seu Jorge (1970), Michel Bastos (1983), Sérgio da Rocha (1959), and Sylvio Hoffmann (1908).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Brazil

Among astronauts born in Brazil, Marcos Pontes ranks 1. 

Brazilian born Astronauts

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