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Michael López-Alegría

1958 - Today

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Michael López-Alegría (born Miguel Eladio López Alegría on May 30, 1958) is an astronaut, test pilot and commercial astronaut with dual nationality, American and Spanish; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission. He is known for having performed ten spacewalks so far in his career, presently holding the second longest all-time EVA duration record (first among NASA astronauts) and having the fifth-longest spaceflight of any American at the length of 215 days; this time was spent on board the ISS from September 18, 2006, to April 21, 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael López-Alegría has received more than 318,043 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Michael López-Alegría is the 162nd most popular astronaut (up from 213th in 2019), the 1,387th most popular biography from Spain (up from 1,617th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Astronaut.

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  • 320k

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  • 48.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Michael López-Alegría ranks 162 out of 556. Before him are Franklin Chang Díaz, Ronald McNair, Eileen Collins, Anatoly Artsebarsky, Valentin Lebedev, and Owen Garriott. After him are Fyodor Yurchikhin, Joe Engle, Rodolfo Neri Vela, Theodore Freeman, Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov, and Léopold Eyharts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Michael López-Alegría ranks 209. Before him are Gigi Becali, Paolo Macchiarini, Mark Cuban, David Sylvian, Deon Meyer, and Giovanni Lavaggi. After him are Miki Biasion, Elisabetta Dami, Tom Lister Jr., Scott Patterson, Michael Paré, and Jennifer Saunders.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Michael López-Alegría ranks 1,387 out of 3,355. Before him are Pepe Romero (1944), Guillermo Eizaguirre (1909), Juan Acuña (1923), Arcadio Larraona Saralegui (1887), Amparo Rivelles (1925), and Jesús Moncada (1941). After him are Terenci Moix (1942), Pedro Antonio de Cevallos (1715), Achraf Hakimi (1998), Martí Ventolrà (1906), Quim Monzó (1952), and Diego Abad de Santillán (1897).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Spain

Among astronauts born in Spain, Michael López-Alegría ranks 1. After him are Pedro Duque (1963).

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