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Wally Schirra

1923 - 2007

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Walter Marty Schirra Jr. (, March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007) was an American naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which was the United States' first effort to put humans into space. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wally Schirra has received more than 1,610,590 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Wally Schirra is the 49th most popular astronaut (up from 58th in 2019), the 2,595th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,909th in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Wally Schirra ranks 49 out of 524. Before him are Vladimir Shatalov, Pavel Belyayev, Valentin Bondarenko, Jean-Loup Chrétien, Ken Mattingly, and Gordon Cooper. After him are Thomas P. Stafford, Mirosław Hermaszewski, Toktar Aubakirov, Michael J. Smith, Viktor Patsayev, and Phạm Tuân.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Wally Schirra ranks 122. Before him are Philly Joe Jones, Charles Durning, Elisabeth Becker, Bert Kaempfert, Peter Lawford, and Alexander Yakovlev. After him are Alexandre Astruc, Joseph Heller, Tito Puente, Andrés Rodríguez, Anita Björk, and Álvaro Mutis. Among people deceased in 2007, Wally Schirra ranks 104. Before him are Luigi Comencini, Karel Svoboda, Ralph Asher Alpher, Pierre Messmer, Julien Gracq, and Paul Cohen. After him are Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, Mika Špiljak, Steve Fossett, Mikhail Ulyanov, Teddy Kollek, and Ulrich Mühe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wally Schirra ranks 2,595 out of 18,182. Before him are Marshall Sahlins (1930), Leslie Easterbrook (1949), Lyman Spitzer (1914), Diane Ladd (1935), Andy Williams (1927), and Paul Cohen (1934). After him are Alvin Kraenzlein (1876), Alice Walton (1949), Robert H. Jackson (1892), Cyrus Vance (1917), Barry Manilow (1943), and Paris Hilton (1981).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Wally Schirra ranks 26. Before him are John Young (1930), Ellison Onizuka (1946), Christa McAuliffe (1948), Fred Haise (1933), Ken Mattingly (1936), and Gordon Cooper (1927). After him are Thomas P. Stafford (1930), Michael J. Smith (1945), Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929), Sally Ride (1951), Judith Resnik (1949), and Ronald Evans (1933).

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