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Pamela Melroy

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION AMERICAN RETIRED
Career
Time in space
38 d 20 h
Spacewalks
0
Flights
3
3 landings
Status
Retired
Nationality
American
Born
17 Sept 1961
First flight
11 Oct 2000
Most recent flight
23 Oct 2007
Type
Government
Biography

Pamela Anne Melroy is a retired United States Air Force officer and a former NASA astronaut. 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, 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.

Flight log

Flights

3 TOTAL
No.FlightDate
03Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-12023 Oct 2007
02Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-11207 Oct 2002
01Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-9211 Oct 2000
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Source The Space Devs — Launch Library 2 Last checked 29 Sept 2026
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