ASTRONAUT

Stuart Roosa

1933 - 1994

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Stuart Allen Roosa (August 16, 1933 – December 12, 1994) was an American aeronautical engineer, smokejumper, United States Air Force pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 14 mission. The mission lasted from January 31 to February 9, 1971, and was the third mission to land astronauts (Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell) on the Moon. While Shepard and Mitchell spent two days on the lunar surface, Roosa conducted experiments from orbit in the Command Module Kitty Hawk. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stuart Roosa has received more than 431,829 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Stuart Roosa is the 93rd most popular astronaut (down from 88th in 2019), the 3,654th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,921st in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 53.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Stuart Roosa ranks 93 out of 556. Before him are William Anders, Anatoly Filipchenko, Donn F. Eisele, Dick Scobee, Leonid Kizim, and Alfred Worden. After him are Aleksandr Serebrov, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Yang Liwei, Anatoly Berezovoy, Valery Ryumin, and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Stuart Roosa ranks 196. Before him are Toshi Ichiyanagi, Mark Eyskens, Jerry Buss, Kamal Ganzouri, Dennis Viollet, and Ilya Kabakov. After him are Meena Kumari, Syd Mead, Jesús Gil, Maximilian, Margrave of Baden, Doyle Brunson, and Sergio Endrigo. Among people deceased in 1994, Stuart Roosa ranks 146. Before him are Zoltán Fábri, Mai Zetterling, Sarah Kofman, Cameron Mitchell, Leonid Leonov, and Jiří Sobotka. After him are Jersey Joe Walcott, Ales Adamovich, Cyprien Ntaryamira, Maria Carta, Russell Bufalino, and Agathe Uwilingiyimana.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stuart Roosa ranks 3,654 out of 20,380. Before him are Lee Hazlewood (1929), Majel Barrett (1932), Max Roach (1924), Bert Patenaude (1909), Alfred Worden (1932), and Peggy March (1948). After him are Annette O'Toole (1952), Harold Sakata (1920), Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897), Thomas Haden Church (1960), Budd Schulberg (1914), and Leon Spinks (1953).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Stuart Roosa ranks 42. Before him are Judith Resnik (1949), Rusty Schweickart (1935), James McDivitt (1929), Donn F. Eisele (1930), Dick Scobee (1939), and Alfred Worden (1932). After him are Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951), Deke Slayton (1924), Scott Carpenter (1925), Gregory Jarvis (1944), Joseph A. Walker (1921), and Jeffrey A. Hoffman (1944).

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