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William H. Dana

1930 - 2014

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William Harvey Dana (November 3, 1930 – May 6, 2014) was an American aeronautical engineer, U.S. Air Force pilot, NASA test pilot, and astronaut. He was one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and NASA. He was also selected for participation in the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. On two separate flights, Dana flew the X-15 to an altitude above 50 miles, thereby qualifying as an astronaut according to the United States definition of the boundary of space; however, neither flight exceeded the Kármán line, the internationally accepted boundary of 100 kilometers (62 miles). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William H. Dana is the 181st most popular astronaut (up from 293rd in 2019), the 6,623rd most popular biography from United States (up from 11,042nd in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, William H. Dana ranks 181 out of 556. Before him are Boris Morukov, Valentina Ponomaryova, Lodewijk van den Berg, Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Roy D. Bridges Jr., and Christer Fuglesang. After him are Donald Pettit, Viktor Savinykh, Vladimir Solovyov, Theodore Freeman, Robert L. Behnken, and Anatoly Levchenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, William H. Dana ranks 381. Before him are FM-2030, Jacques Tits, Marco Pannella, Leonid Abalkin, Giorgio Ghezzi, and Jean Guillou. After him are Edward Woodward, Kurt Nielsen, Jeannette Altwegg, Hank Mobley, Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, and David Amram. Among people deceased in 2014, William H. Dana ranks 294. Before him are Sarah Marshall, Ichirō Nagai, Bel Kaufman, Mary F. Lyon, Arnoldo Foà, and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. After him are Aurelio Milani, Eugene Dynkin, Åke Johansson, Marian Seldes, Carmelo Bossi, and Régine Deforges.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William H. Dana ranks 6,624 out of 20,380. Before him are John Mellencamp (1951), Judith Rich Harris (1938), George Simpson (1908), Tony Ferguson (1984), Nicholas Pileggi (1933), and Raoul Trujillo (1955). After him are Bob Schul (1937), Simon Bolivar Buckner (1823), Carol Alt (1960), John Hejduk (1929), Diane Disney Miller (1933), and Big Joe Turner (1911).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, William H. Dana ranks 81. Before him are Michael Foreman (1957), Paul J. Weitz (1932), Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. (1935), Ronald McNair (1950), Edward Gibson (1936), and Roy D. Bridges Jr. (1943). After him are Donald Pettit (1955), Theodore Freeman (1930), Robert L. Behnken (1970), William Shepherd (1949), Rick Husband (1957), and C. Gordon Fullerton (1936).

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