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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 March 30, 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 194,359 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Marcos Pontes is the 230th most popular astronaut (down from 209th in 2019), the 681st most popular biography from Brazil (down from 638th in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Astronaut.

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  • 190k

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  • 42.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Marcos Pontes ranks 230 out of 524Before him are Henry Hartsfield, Loren Acton, Thomas Reiter, Soichi Noguchi, Lisa Nowak, and Thomas Pesquet. After him are Bryan D. O'Connor, Norman Thagard, Valery Korzun, Koichi Wakata, Takao Doi, and Jeffrey Williams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Marcos Pontes ranks 367Before him are Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Tim DeKay, Joe Dumars, Bruce Schneier, Lisa Nowak, and Maria Walliser. After him are Konrad Krajewski, Erik King, Kira Ivanova, Govinda, Slobodan Dubajić, and Roberto Mussi.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Marcos Pontes ranks 681 out of 2,067Before him are Cléber Eduardo Arado (1972), Nélson Luís Kerchner (1962), Paulo Henrique Ganso (1989), Rafael (1990), Washington (1975), and Diego Alves (1985). After him are Débora Falabella (1979), Toninho (1965), Josimar (1961), José Aldo (1986), Arthur Melo (1996), and Roberto Gomes Pedrosa (1913).

Among ASTRONAUTS In Brazil

Among astronauts born in Brazil, Marcos Pontes ranks 1

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