ASTRONAUT

Sally Ride

1951 - 2012

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Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sally Ride has received more than 6,477,145 page views. Her biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Sally Ride is the 75th most popular astronaut (down from 59th in 2019), the 3,179th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,902nd in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 6.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 72

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Sally Ride ranks 75 out of 556. Before her are Viktor Gorbatko, Thomas P. Stafford, Michael J. Smith, Mary L. Cleave, Phạm Tuân, and Yuri Artyukhin. After her are Konstantin Feoktistov, Georgi Ivanov, Leonid Popov, Rakesh Sharma, Judith Resnik, and Rusty Schweickart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Sally Ride ranks 143. Before her are Fabrice Luchini, Tommy Bolin, Jan Fischer, Arkady Rotenberg, Abel Ferrara, and Danilo Medina. After her are Enki Bilal, Rajnath Singh, Matti Pellonpää, Jean Smart, Orson Scott Card, and David Kabua. Among people deceased in 2012, Sally Ride ranks 133. Before her are Pahiño, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Ahmed Jabari, Lars Hörmander, Gae Aulenti, and Thomas Szasz. After her are Georgi Lozanov, Iajuddin Ahmed, Lakshmi Sahgal, George Knobel, Pavel Grachev, and Georges Mathieu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sally Ride ranks 3,179 out of 20,380. Before her are Richard Hamming (1915), Lesley Gore (1946), Marlena Shaw (1939), Joseph Strauss (1870), Ron Kovic (1946), and Tallulah Bankhead (1902). After her are Tatum O'Neal (1963), Alex North (1910), Chris Sarandon (1942), Anthony Fauci (1940), Josh Duhamel (1972), and Thomas Curtis (1873).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Sally Ride ranks 35. Before her are Christa McAuliffe (1948), Karol J. Bobko (1937), Gordon Cooper (1927), Thomas P. Stafford (1930), Michael J. Smith (1945), and Mary L. Cleave (1947). After her are Judith Resnik (1949), Rusty Schweickart (1935), James McDivitt (1929), Donn F. Eisele (1930), Dick Scobee (1939), and Alfred Worden (1932).

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