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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. He was one of 24 men to travel to the Moon, which he orbited 34 times. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stuart Roosa is the 92nd most popular astronaut (up from 93rd in 2019), the 3,734th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,654th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Stuart Roosa ranks 92 out of 556. Before him are Leonid Popov, Kalpana Chawla, Aleksei Gubarev, Walter Cunningham, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, and Vladimir Lyakhov. After him are Yury Romanenko, Yuri Artyukhin, Scott Carpenter, Andy Thomas, Valentin Bondarenko, and Anatoly Filipchenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Stuart Roosa ranks 180. Before him are Marcos Alonso, Sabah Fakhri, Ceija Stojka, Ron Wyatt, Humberto Maschio, and Saleh Al-Fawzan. After him are Toshi Ichiyanagi, James Rosenquist, Vera Krepkina, Abel Pacheco, Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, and Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. Among people deceased in 1994, Stuart Roosa ranks 138. Before him are Enrique Líster, Giovanni Goria, Alexander Shelepin, Dean Rusk, Vazgen I, and Elissa Aalto. After him are Russell Bufalino, Mai Zetterling, Ivan Sidorenko, Jean Carmet, Zoltán Fábri, and Agathe Uwilingiyimana.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stuart Roosa ranks 3,734 out of 20,380. Before him are Brent Spiner (1949), Richard Tucker (1913), Harry Myers (1882), Jeanne Tripplehorn (1963), Clarence Zener (1905), and Winslow Homer (1836). After him are Josh Holloway (1969), Jay Rockefeller (1937), Marie Smith Jones (1918), Alice B. Toklas (1877), Curtis Mayfield (1942), and Steven Wright (1955).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Stuart Roosa ranks 52. Before him are Sally Ride (1951), Ken Mattingly (1936), Frank L. Culbertson Jr. (1949), Susan Helms (1958), Dick Scobee (1939), and Walter Cunningham (1932). After him are Scott Carpenter (1925), Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951), Donn F. Eisele (1930), Douglas G. Hurley (1966), Gregory Jarvis (1944), and Deke Slayton (1924).

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