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Peggy Whitson

1960 - Today

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Peggy Annette Whitson (born February 9, 1960) is an American biochemistry researcher, and astronaut working for Axiom Space. She retired from NASA in 2018, after serving as Chief Astronaut . Over all her missions, Whitson has a total of 675 days in space, more than any other American or woman.Her first NASA space mission was in 2002: an extended stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as a crew member of Expedition 5. On her second mission, Expedition 16 in 2007-2008, she became the first woman to command the ISS. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peggy Whitson has received more than 1,317,390 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Peggy Whitson is the 142nd most popular astronaut (down from 136th in 2019), the 5,836th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,321st in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 35

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  • 4.68

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  • 3.66

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Peggy Whitson ranks 142 out of 524Before her are Gennady Sarafanov, Barbara Morgan, Vitaly Zholobov, Anatoly Levchenko, Rick Husband, and William Shepherd. After her are Vance D. Brand, Ronald McNair, Michael R. Clifford, Roberta Bondar, Vitaly Sevastyanov, and David M. Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Peggy Whitson ranks 198Before her are Hiam Abbass, Mikael Håfström, Linford Christie, Oksana Zabuzhko, Kelly LeBrock, and Gabriel Calderón. After her are Doug Hutchison, Igor Sechin, Jean-Marc Barr, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Adrián Campos, and Andrés Gómez.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peggy Whitson ranks 5,836 out of 18,182Before her are Seán Patrick O'Malley (1944), Jack Sherman (1956), Anna Sui (1952), Gilbert Gottfried (1955), Colleen Camp (1953), and George Peabody (1795). After her are Doug Hutchison (1960), Marni Nixon (1930), John Hopcroft (1939), John Thomas (1941), Alex Rodriguez (1975), and Tim Blake Nelson (1964).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Peggy Whitson ranks 52Before her are Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951), Anna Lee Fisher (1949), Mae Jemison (1956), Barbara Morgan (1951), Rick Husband (1957), and William Shepherd (1949). After her are Vance D. Brand (1931), Ronald McNair (1950), Michael R. Clifford (1952), David M. Brown (1956), William E. Thornton (1929), and Elliot See (1927).

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