ASTRONAUT

Owen Garriott

1930 - 2019

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Owen Kay Garriott (November 22, 1930 – April 15, 2019) was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut, who spent 60 days aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 during the Skylab 3 mission, and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 on a Space Shuttle mission in 1983. After serving in the United States Navy, Garriott was an engineering professor at Stanford University before attending the United States Air Force Pilot Training Program and later joining NASA. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Owen Garriott has received more than 447,386 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Owen Garriott is the 161st most popular astronaut (down from 156th in 2019), the 6,033rd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,499th in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 450k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Owen Garriott ranks 161 out of 556. Before him are Chiaki Mukai, Franklin Chang Díaz, Ronald McNair, Eileen Collins, Anatoly Artsebarsky, and Valentin Lebedev. After him are Michael López-Alegría, Fyodor Yurchikhin, Joe Engle, Rodolfo Neri Vela, Theodore Freeman, and Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Owen Garriott ranks 351. Before him are Bob Guccione, Francesco Maselli, Jeannette Altwegg, Heinz Kubsch, Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, and Stephen Fumio Hamao. After him are Chris Barber, Anthony Downs, Tommy Flanagan, Jacques Tits, Donald Moffat, and Luis de Pablo. Among people deceased in 2019, Owen Garriott ranks 289. Before him are Paolo Sardi, Babiker Awadalla, Isacio Calleja, Li Rui, Harold Brown, and Michael J. Pollard. After him are Charlie Whiting, Carol Channing, Shivakumara Swami, Imata Kabua, Princess Alix of Luxembourg, and Rudi Assauer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Owen Garriott ranks 6,033 out of 20,380. Before him are Paul Dooley (1928), Mark Boone Junior (1955), Ken Olsen (1926), Michael Cudlitz (1964), Jeffrey Ullman (1942), and Jerry Lucas (1940). After him are William Bonin (1947), Walter Burley Griffin (1876), John William Casilear (1811), Geraldine Ferraro (1935), Kim Dickens (1965), and Stan Hansen (1949).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Owen Garriott ranks 59. Before him are William R. Pogue (1930), Edward Gibson (1936), Peggy Whitson (1960), William Shepherd (1949), Ronald McNair (1950), and Eileen Collins (1956). After him are Joe Engle (1932), Theodore Freeman (1930), Paul J. Weitz (1932), Anna Lee Fisher (1949), John E. Blaha (1942), and Elliot See (1927).

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