# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-g-poindexter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:30:53.267Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-g-poindexter"
name: "Alan G. Poindexter"
slug: "alan-g-poindexter"
description: "Alan Goodwin Poindexter was an American naval officer and a NASA astronaut. Poindexter was selected in the 1998 NASA Group (G17) and went into orbit aboard Space Shuttle missions STS-122 and STS-131."
tagline: "American test pilot and astronaut (1961-2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alan_G._Poindexter.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
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  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1961-11-05"
deathDate: "2012-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump