ASTRONAUT

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pamela Melroy has received more than 289,958 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Pamela Melroy is the 300th most popular astronaut (down from 297th in 2019), the 11,449th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,101st in 2019) and the 132nd most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 290k

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  • 49.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Pamela Melroy ranks 300 out of 556. Before her are Sergei Treshchov, Donald E. Williams, Susan Helms, Donald Pettit, David M. Walker, and Aidyn Aimbetov. After her are Alan G. Poindexter, John Herrington, Reinhold Ewald, Jing Haipeng, Ulrich Walter, and Loren Shriver.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Pamela Melroy ranks 524. Before her are Laura Boldrini, Soane Patita Paini Mafi, Andrei Khomutov, Erez Tal, Lauren Tom, and Javed Iqbal. After her are Alan G. Poindexter, Sugao Kambe, Lynn Hill, Ann Coulter, Pierre Habumuremyi, and Kim Leine.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Pamela Melroy ranks 11,449 out of 20,380. Before her are Wings Hauser (1947), Lucy Burns (1879), Ruth Warrick (1916), Terry Southern (1924), William J. Hardee (1815), and Kari Byron (1974). After her are Bert I. Gordon (1922), Jim Byrnes (1948), Fandango (1981), Gregory Harrison (1950), John Hencken (1954), and Ron Harper (1964).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Pamela Melroy ranks 132. Before her are Jeffrey Williams (1958), William H. Dana (1930), Donald E. Williams (1942), Susan Helms (1958), Donald Pettit (1955), and David M. Walker (1944). After her are Alan G. Poindexter (1961), John Herrington (1958), Loren Shriver (1944), Robert L. Stewart (1942), Christina Koch (1979), and Andrew M. Allen (1955).

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