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S. David Griggs

1939 - 1989

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Stanley David Griggs (September 7, 1939 – June 17, 1989) was a United States Navy officer and a NASA astronaut. He is credited with conducting the first unscheduled extra-vehicular activity of the space program during Space Shuttle mission STS-51-D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of S. David Griggs has received more than 55,555 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. S. David Griggs is the 287th most popular astronaut (down from 266th in 2019), the 10,893rd most popular biography from United States (down from 10,096th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular American Astronaut.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, S. David Griggs ranks 287 out of 556. Before him are Brewster H. Shaw, Tamara E. Jernigan, Richard O. Covey, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Norman Thagard, and William E. Thornton. After him are Ellen Ochoa, Steven Lindsey, Christopher Ferguson, Jeffrey Williams, Umberto Guidoni, and William H. Dana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, S. David Griggs ranks 566. Before him are Brian Jacques, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, James M. Bardeen, Paul Sauvage, Kate O'Mara, and Pavel Morozenko. After him are James Hartle, Peter Goldreich, Bob Clark, Bill Mulliken, Harvey Pekar, and Orlando Quevedo. Among people deceased in 1989, S. David Griggs ranks 280. Before him are Imre Hódos, Lennox Berkeley, Amanda Blake, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, May Allison, and Pua Kealoha. After him are Ursula Knab, Constance Binney, Robert B. Anderson, Stella Gibbons, Egon Orowan, and Prem Nazir.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, S. David Griggs ranks 10,893 out of 20,380. Before him are David L. Rabinowitz (1960), Chris Bauer (1966), Bertrand Halperin (1941), Harriet Sansom Harris (1955), Shannyn Sossamon (1978), and Dale Chihuly (1941). After him are Matt Schulze (1972), Mathew Knowles (1952), Janine Turner (1962), Charles F. Kettering (1958), Tim Reid (1944), and John Bunny (1863).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, S. David Griggs ranks 122. Before him are William B. Lenoir (1939), Brewster H. Shaw (1945), Tamara E. Jernigan (1959), Richard O. Covey (1946), Norman Thagard (1943), and William E. Thornton (1929). After him are Ellen Ochoa (1958), Steven Lindsey (1960), Christopher Ferguson (1961), Jeffrey Williams (1958), William H. Dana (1930), and Donald E. Williams (1942).

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