ASTRONAUT

Michael P. Anderson

1959 - 2003

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Michael Phillip Anderson (December 25, 1959 – February 1, 2003) was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. He and his six fellow crew members were killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Anderson served as the payload commander and lieutenant colonel in charge of science experiments on the Columbia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael P. Anderson has received more than 831,480 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Michael P. Anderson is the 30th most popular astronaut (down from 29th in 2019), the 1,690th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,900th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 59.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Michael P. Anderson ranks 30 out of 556. Before him are Gus Grissom, Pavel Popovich, Ed White, Aleksandr Viktorenko, Roger B. Chaffee, and Edgar Mitchell. After him are Georgy Dobrovolsky, Ken Mattingly, Charles Duke, Ilan Ramon, Valery Bykovsky, and Fred Haise.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Michael P. Anderson ranks 51. Before him are Kyle MacLachlan, Moza bint Nasser, Vincent D'Onofrio, Anne Hidalgo, Morten Harket, and Frank Darabont. After him are Rosanna Arquette, Christian Wulff, Tupou VI, Ving Rhames, Donna Strickland, and Per Gessle. Among people deceased in 2003, Michael P. Anderson ranks 58. Before him are Frank Sheeran, Anna Lindh, Rasul Gamzatov, Annemarie Schimmel, Valentin Pavlov, and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. After him are Georg Henrik von Wright, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Uday Hussein, Bob Hope, László Papp, and June Carter Cash.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael P. Anderson ranks 1,690 out of 20,380. Before him are Jerry Reed (1937), Maria Mitchell (1818), Ralph Bellamy (1904), Seymour Hersh (1937), Diane Lane (1965), and Alan Kay (1940). After him are Griffin Dunne (1955), Lee Iacocca (1924), Rosanna Arquette (1959), Richard Fleischer (1916), Stevie Nicks (1948), and Tanya Roberts (1955).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Michael P. Anderson ranks 18. Before him are Jim Lovell (1928), Alan Bean (1932), Gus Grissom (1926), Ed White (1930), Roger B. Chaffee (1935), and Edgar Mitchell (1930). After him are Ken Mattingly (1936), Charles Duke (1935), Fred Haise (1933), Bruce McCandless II (1937), John Young (1930), and Ellison Onizuka (1946).

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