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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.
The current Deputy Administrator is Pamela Melroy, who was confirmed by the Senate on June 17, 2021, and sworn in on June 21, 2021. [8] Deputy administrators.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pamela Melroy – both former astronauts --spent two hours chatting with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Tuesday, took selfies with ...
Two commanders: Melroy and Whitson place the STS-120 mission insignia on the wall of the newly installed Harmony module. As commander of STS-120, Pamela Melroy became the second woman (after Eileen Collins) to command a Space Shuttle mission. [6]
Pamela Melroy, for example, took on several missions to the International Space Station on the shuttles Discovery and Atlantis. [8] Not only was Melroy an astronaut but she was also a veteran military pilot who has more than 5,000 hours of flight time. [8] In 2007, Peggy Whitson became the first woman to command the International Space Station. [8]
NASA’s laser communications experiment just beamed back a video from space for the first time, and it features a cat named Taters chasing a laser pointer.
Biden chose former Space Shuttle commanders Pamela Melroy and Robert D. Cabana to assist Nelson as Deputy Administrator and Associate Administrator, respectively. [59] After his retirement in 2023, Cabana was succeeded by exploration head Jim Free. [60]
NASA Astronaut Group 15 ("The Flying Escargot") was a group of 23 NASA astronauts announced on December 8, 1994. [1] [2] Group members adopted The Flying Escargot as their moniker, in reference to two members of the group being from France. [3]