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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 402,465 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Stuart Roosa is the 88th most popular astronaut, the 3,932nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,917th in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 400k

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  • 51.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Stuart Roosa ranks 88 out of 524Before him are Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Leonid Kizim, Scott Carpenter, Yuri Artyukhin, Anatoly Berezovoy, and Pyotr Klimuk. After him are Alfred Worden, Gennady Padalka, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov, Walter Cunningham, Ulf Merbold, and Vladimir Lyakhov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Stuart Roosa ranks 197Before him are Humberto Maschio, Ray Dolby, Mark Eyskens, Bat Ye'or, Justo Tejada, and Sergio Endrigo. After him are James Rosenquist, Hillevi Rombin, Julian Bream, René Burri, Lynn Cohen, and Jörn Donner. Among people deceased in 1994, Stuart Roosa ranks 149Before him are Luis Donaldo Colosio, Zoltán Fábri, William Conrad, Ales Adamovich, Giovanni Goria, and Juan Alonso. After him are Frederick Copleston, Anatoly Alexandrov, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Nick Cravat, Paul Grimault, and Oldřich Černík.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stuart Roosa ranks 3,932 out of 18,182Before him are Peggy March (1948), Billie Joe Armstrong (1972), Rob Lowe (1964), Harry Hopkins (1890), Richard F. Outcault (1863), and Bill W. (1895). After him are Robert McKee (1941), Susan Kohner (1936), Jimmy Smits (1955), James Rosenquist (1933), Jim Croce (1943), and Richard Roundtree (1942).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Stuart Roosa ranks 39Before him are Dick Scobee (1939), Charles Duke (1935), Joseph A. Walker (1921), Gregory Jarvis (1944), Deke Slayton (1924), and Scott Carpenter (1925). After him are Alfred Worden (1932), Walter Cunningham (1932), Sunita Williams (1965), Donn F. Eisele (1930), William R. Pogue (1930), and Rusty Schweickart (1935).