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Pamela Melroy

1961 - Today

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Pamela Ann Melroy (born September 17, 1961) is an American retired United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut serving as the deputy administrator of NASA. She served as pilot on Space Shuttle missions STS-92 and STS-112 and commanded mission STS-120 before leaving the agency in August 2009. After serving as deputy program manager of Space Exploration Initiatives with Lockheed Martin, Melroy joined the Federal Aviation Administration in 2011, where she was a senior technical advisor and director of field operations for the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation. In 2013, she left the FAA and joined DARPA as deputy director of the Tactical Technology Office. She left the agency in February 2017. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pamela Melroy is the 287th most popular astronaut (up from 300th in 2019), the 10,267th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,448th in 2019) and the 135th most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Pamela Melroy ranks 287 out of 556. Before her are Brewster H. Shaw, Marcos Pontes, Norman Thagard, Fei Junlong, Jean-Jacques Favier, and Franz Viehböck. After her are Vasily Tsibliyev, Gennadi Manakov, Klaus-Dietrich Flade, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, James M. Kelly, and David M. Walker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Pamela Melroy ranks 424. Before her are Rob Stewart, Vik Muniz, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Mark Messier, Stanislav Griga, and Andrés Calamaro. After her are Calvin Smith, John Byrne, Karin Enke, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Bodil Jørgensen, and Anton Josipović.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Pamela Melroy ranks 10,269 out of 20,380. Before her are Steve Jablonsky (1970), Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850), Anne Gwynne (1918), Mamie Till (1921), Megan Mullally (1958), and Robert Keith (1898). After her are Rakim (1968), Calvin Smith (1961), Carol Shields (1935), Joel Glazer (1970), Tom Tryon (1926), and John C. Malone (1941).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Pamela Melroy ranks 135. Before her are Daniel Brandenstein (1943), Robert L. Stewart (1942), John Oliver Creighton (1943), Steven R. Nagel (1946), Brewster H. Shaw (1945), and Norman Thagard (1943). After her are Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (1963), James M. Kelly (1964), David M. Walker (1944), José M. Hernández (1962), Ellen Ochoa (1958), and Janice E. Voss (1956).

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