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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 6,056,771 page views. Her biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Sally Ride is the 59th most popular astronaut (up from 73rd in 2019), the 2,909th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,461st in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 54.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 68

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  • 2.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Sally Ride ranks 59 out of 524. Before her are Michael J. Smith, Viktor Patsayev, Phạm Tuân, Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa, Viktor Gorbatko, and Richard F. Gordon Jr.. After her are Judith Resnik, Ronald Evans, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Dick Scobee, Georgi Ivanov, and Aleksei Gubarev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Sally Ride ranks 118. Before her are Alexander Sokurov, Nikolai Patrushev, Ace Frehley, Markku Alén, Vera Fischer, and Michel Barnier. After her are Jackie Jackson, Arkady Rotenberg, Salih Muslim, Roger Myerson, Orson Scott Card, and Jean-Jacques Goldman. Among people deceased in 2012, Sally Ride ranks 121. Before her are Georges Mathieu, Malam Bacai Sanhá, Félix Miélli Venerando, Giorgio Chinaglia, Sid Watkins, and Sixten Jernberg. After her are Benzion Netanyahu, Thomas Szasz, Alexander Arutiunian, Henry Hill, Lefter Küçükandonyadis, and Jack Tramiel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sally Ride ranks 2,909 out of 18,182. Before her are Mary-Louise Parker (1964), Randy Schekman (1948), Alfred Lunt (1892), John Phillip Law (1937), Aaron Russo (1943), and Claude Akins (1926). After her are Betty Davis (1945), William E. Moerner (1953), Jane Alexander (1939), Jackie Jackson (1951), George Mikan (1924), and Melissa McBride (1965).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Sally Ride ranks 30. Before her are Ken Mattingly (1936), Gordon Cooper (1927), Wally Schirra (1923), Thomas P. Stafford (1930), Michael J. Smith (1945), and Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929). After her are Judith Resnik (1949), Ronald Evans (1933), Dick Scobee (1939), Charles Duke (1935), Joseph A. Walker (1921), and Gregory Jarvis (1944).

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