Pamela Melroy | |
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.jpeg) Official portrait, 2023 | |
| 15th Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |
| Assumed office June 21, 2021 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | James Morhard |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Pamela Ann Melroy September 17, 1961 Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Education | Wellesley College (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS) |
| Space career | |
| NASA astronaut | |
Time in space | 38d 20h 6m |
| Selection | NASA Group 15 (1994) |
| Missions | STS-92 STS-112 STS-120 |
Mission insignia |    |
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,[1] 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.[2]
In 2013, she left the FAA and joined DARPA as deputy director of the Tactical Technology Office. She left the agency in February 2017.
In November 2021, Melroy was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The ceremony, planned for May 2020, was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3][4]
- ^ "NASA - Veteran Astronaut Pam Melroy Leaves NASA". www.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on July 26, 2009. Retrieved July 25, 2009.
- ^ "Pamela A. Melroy (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) – Senior Technical Advisor". www.faa.gov.
- ^ "Rochester woman to be inducted into US Astronaut Hall of Fame". WSYR. January 25, 2020. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
- ^ "1-on-1 with Pamela Melroy: Rochester native to be inducted in Astronaut Hall of Fame". RochesterFirst. January 24, 2020. Retrieved January 26, 2020.