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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 426,024 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Owen Garriott is the 156th most popular astronaut (up from 164th in 2019), the 6,513th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,377th in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 430k

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  • 46.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Owen Garriott ranks 156 out of 524. Before him are Valentina Ponomaryova, William E. Thornton, Chiaki Mukai, Elliot See, Charles Bassett, and Story Musgrave. After him are Yury Malyshev, Edward Gibson, Paul J. Weitz, Jack Lousma, Joe Engle, and Reinhard Furrer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Owen Garriott ranks 354. Before him are Anatoli Maslyonkin, Tsutomu Seki, James Coco, Richard Anuszkiewicz, John Polkinghorne, and Eino Tamberg. After him are Gladys West, Salvatore De Giorgi, Oleg Anofriyev, Richard Bonynge, Andrey Petrov, and Yoshinori Shigematsu. Among people deceased in 2019, Owen Garriott ranks 305. Before him are Med Hondo, Erik Olin Wright, Beth Carvalho, Jorma Kinnunen, Rui Jordão, and Yao Lee. After him are Verna Bloom, Cameron Boyce, Pedro Morales, Ron Leibman, Bernard Binlin Dadié, and Larry Cohen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Owen Garriott ranks 6,513 out of 18,182. Before him are Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917), Evan Rachel Wood (1987), Charles Roven (1949), Phil Heath (1979), Edie McClurg (1951), and Kim Gordon (1953). After him are Travis Scott (1991), Jim Lightbody (1882), Garry Winogrand (1928), Mike Patton (1968), Walter Burley Griffin (1876), and Chester Himes (1909).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Owen Garriott ranks 61. Before him are Michael R. Clifford (1952), David M. Brown (1956), William E. Thornton (1929), Elliot See (1927), Charles Bassett (1931), and Story Musgrave (1935). After him are Edward Gibson (1936), Paul J. Weitz (1932), Jack Lousma (1936), Joe Engle (1932), C. Gordon Fullerton (1936), and Theodore Freeman (1930).

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