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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.
As commander of STS-120, Pamela Melroy became the second woman (after Eileen Collins) to command a Space Shuttle mission. [6] Additionally, the Expedition 16 crew that received STS-120 was commanded by Peggy Whitson , the first female ISS commander.
Pamela Melroy (born 1961), former NASA astronaut who served as pilot and commander on Space Shuttle missions Betty Miller (1926–2018), first woman to fly solo across the Pacific [ 42 ] Violet Milstead (1919–2014), Canadian Air Transport Auxiliary pilot during WWII and the first female bush pilot
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]
Pamela A. Melroy [4] First spaceflight Mission Specialist 1 Leroy Chiao [5] [6] Third spaceflight Mission Specialist 2 Flight Engineer William S. McArthur [7] Third spaceflight Mission Specialist 3 Peter J.K. Wisoff [8] Fourth and last spaceflight Mission Specialist 4 / Michael E. López-Alegría [8] Second spaceflight Mission Specialist 5
STS-112 (ISS assembly flight 9A) was an 11-day Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. [1] Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched on 7 October 2002 at 19:45 UTC from the Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B to deliver the 28,000 pound Starboard 1 (S1) truss segment to the Space Station. [2]
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]
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.