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Key facts
- President
- Joe Biden
- Preceded by
- James Morhard
- Succeeded by
- Matthew P. Anderson
- Born
- Pamela Ann Melroy , ( 1961-09-17 ) September 17, 1961 (age 64) , Palo Alto, California , U.S.
- Education
- Wellesley College ( BA ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MS )
- Rank
- Colonel, USAF
- Time in space
- 38d 20h 6m
- Selection
- NASA Group 15 (1994)
- Missions
- STS-92 , STS-112 , STS-120
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- NASA Astronaut Group 15
- Given name
- Pamela
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Palo Alto
- Occupation
- astronaut
- Employer
- cook
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Military branch
- United States Air Force
- Military rank
- colonel
- Image
- Pamela Melroy.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
Pamela Ann Melroy (born September 17, 1961) is an American retired United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut who also served 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pamela Melroy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.