# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adam-steltzner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:59:18.660Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adam-steltzner"
name: "Adam Steltzner"
slug: "adam-steltzner"
description: "Adam Diedrich Steltzner is an American NASA engineer who works for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He worked on several flight projects including Galileo, Cassini, Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rovers (MER). He was the lead engineer of the Mars Science Laboratory's EDL phase, and helped design, build and test the sky crane landing system."
tagline: "American aerospace engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Adam_Steltzner_2021_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1963"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.2103559870550162
  historical:           6.622716
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/steltzner"
    handle:    "steltzner"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/steltzneradam/"
    handle:    "steltzneradam"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
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    handle:    "adamsteltzner"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
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    handle:    "adam-steltzner-1b33a051"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm1581679"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.adamsteltzner.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ادام ستيلتزنير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آدام ستلزنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Adam Steltzner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آدام استلتزنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Adam Steltzner"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2522559"
    title: "Adam Steltzner"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump