ASTRONAUT

Thomas P. Stafford

1930 - 2024

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Thomas Patten Stafford (September 17, 1930 – March 18, 2024) was an American Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and one of 24 astronauts who flew to the Moon. He also served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1969 to 1971. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy, Stafford was commissioned in the United States Air Force, flying the F-86 Sabre before becoming a test pilot. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas P. Stafford has received more than 1,086,354 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Thomas P. Stafford is the 70th most popular astronaut (down from 50th in 2019), the 3,036th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,599th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Thomas P. Stafford ranks 70 out of 556. Before him are Vyacheslav Zudov, Aleksei Gubarev, Karol J. Bobko, Gordon Cooper, Claude Nicollier, and Viktor Gorbatko. After him are Michael J. Smith, Mary L. Cleave, Phạm Tuân, Yuri Artyukhin, Sally Ride, and Konstantin Feoktistov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Thomas P. Stafford ranks 182. Before him are Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Mildred Dresselhaus, Robert Culp, Frank McCourt, Anatoly Lukyanov, and Rudolf E. Kálmán. After him are María Elena Walsh, Jānis Pujats, Lazar Berman, Ahmad Jamal, Jordi Pujol, and Frances Sternhagen. Among people deceased in 2024, Thomas P. Stafford ranks 101. Before him are Terry Bisson, Alberto Festa, Vyacheslav Zudov, Juan Vicente Pérez, Ali Hassan Mwinyi, and Bennie Muller. After him are Louis Gossett Jr., Alberto Colombo, Péter Eötvös, Fritz Wepper, Josip Manolić, and Christopher Priest.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas P. Stafford ranks 3,036 out of 20,380. Before him are Bobby Kimball (1947), Gutzon Borglum (1867), Vonda N. McIntyre (1948), Kate Chopin (1850), Dan Inosanto (1936), and Calista Flockhart (1964). After him are Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Melvil Dewey (1851), Curtis Mayfield (1942), Dan Castellaneta (1957), Louis Gossett Jr. (1936), and Edward Zwick (1952).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Thomas P. Stafford ranks 32. Before him are Wally Schirra (1923), Ronald Evans (1933), Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929), Christa McAuliffe (1948), Karol J. Bobko (1937), and Gordon Cooper (1927). After him are Michael J. Smith (1945), Mary L. Cleave (1947), Sally Ride (1951), Judith Resnik (1949), Rusty Schweickart (1935), and James McDivitt (1929).

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