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Theodore Freeman

1930 - 1964

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Theodore Cordy "Ted" Freeman (February 18, 1930 – October 31, 1964), was an American aeronautical engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. Selected in the third group of NASA astronauts in 1963, he was killed a year later in the crash of a T-38 jet, marking the first fatality among the NASA Astronaut Corps. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theodore Freeman has received more than 210,040 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Theodore Freeman is the 167th most popular astronaut (down from 165th in 2019), the 6,855th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,393rd in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Theodore Freeman ranks 167 out of 524Before him are Joe Engle, Reinhard Furrer, Aleksandr Viktorenko, C. Gordon Fullerton, Christer Fuglesang, and Fyodor Yurchikhin. After him are Clifton Williams, Eileen Collins, Valeri Tokarev, Laurel Clark, Patrick Baudry, and Yuri Malenchenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Theodore Freeman ranks 375Before him are Matt Monro, Aleksandar Matanović, Ignazio Fabra, Kei Kumai, Wilferd Madelung, and Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi. After him are Anatoly Kuznetsov, Alakbar Mammadov, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Giorgio Ghezzi, Clarke Scholes, and Abdalqadir as-Sufi. Among people deceased in 1964, Theodore Freeman ranks 147Before him are Eberardo Villalobos, Felisberto Hernández, Edith Sitwell, John Eke, Paul A. Baran, and Axel Norling. After him are Ville Pörhölä, Hermann Barrelet, Luiz Gervazoni, Luis Batlle Berres, Clive Bell, and Werner Bergengruen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Theodore Freeman ranks 6,855 out of 18,182Before him are Stephen Hunter (1946), Randy Johnson (1963), Larry McMurtry (1936), William Stevenson (1900), Norman Joseph Woodland (1921), and Mildred Gillars (1900). After him are Charles R. Knight (1874), Gil Birmingham (1953), Mildred Davis (1901), Kenneth Lay (1942), Bob Kiesel (1911), and Ashley Benson (1989).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Theodore Freeman ranks 67Before him are Owen Garriott (1930), Edward Gibson (1936), Paul J. Weitz (1932), Jack Lousma (1936), Joe Engle (1932), and C. Gordon Fullerton (1936). After him are Clifton Williams (1932), Eileen Collins (1956), Laurel Clark (1961), Robert Crippen (1937), John Oliver Creighton (1943), and Scott Kelly (1964).