ASTRONAUT

Michael Foale

1957 - Today

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Colin Michael Foale (; born 6 January 1957) is a British-American astrophysicist and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six space missions, and is the only NASA astronaut to have flown extended missions aboard both Mir and the International Space Station. He was the second Briton in space and the first to perform a space walk. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Foale has received more than 353,160 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Michael Foale is the 369th most popular astronaut (down from 361st in 2019), the 6,063rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,620th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Astronaut.

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  • 350k

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  • 47.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Michael Foale ranks 369 out of 556. Before him are James S. Voss, Luca Parmitano, Curtis Brown, Ed Lu, Stephen Bowen, and Matthias Maurer. After him are Aleksandr Lazutkin, Michael Fincke, Michael Barratt, Nancy J. Currie-Gregg, Carl E. Walz, and Sandra Magnus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Michael Foale ranks 622. Before him are Beat Breu, Fathi Hassan, Eric Bristow, Tim Witherspoon, Juan Carlos Arteche, and Hideaki Tomiyama. After him are Tim Bevan, Aleksandr Lazutkin, Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Tony Alva, Frederico Rosa, and Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Foale ranks 6,063 out of 8,785. Before him are Martin Bashir (1963), Frederick Merriman (1873), Tom Kilburn (1921), Rory Kinnear (1978), David Hemery (1944), and Charles Ingram (1963). After him are Peter Ashdown (1934), Vic Crowe (1932), Ronald Searle (1920), Toyah Willcox (1958), Alan Smith (1962), and Ralph Firman (1975).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United Kingdom

Among astronauts born in United Kingdom, Michael Foale ranks 2. Before him are Piers Sellers (1955). After him are Helen Sharman (1963), Gregory H. Johnson (1962), Tim Peake (1972), and Nicholas Patrick (1964).

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