# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-d-gemar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:21:38.493Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-d-gemar"
name: "Charles D. Gemar"
slug: "charles-d-gemar"
description: "Charles Donald \"Sam\" Gemar is an American former astronaut with NASA and a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army. Gemar has flown on three Space Shuttle missions. Gemar has completed 385 orbits of the Earth and over 581 hours in space. He has also served in different positions in NASA, including as a CAPCOM for Shuttle missions. Gemar was the first astronaut to be born in the state of South Dakota."
tagline: "American astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CharlesDGemar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1955-08-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.21116
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Чарлз Доналд Ґемар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشارلز دى. جيمار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Чарлс Гимар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Donald_Gemar"
    title: "Charles Donald Gemar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_D._Gemar"
    title: "Charles D. Gemar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_D._Gemar"
    title: "Charles D. Gemar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%AF%DB%8C_%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "چارلز دی جمار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gemar"
    title: "Charles Gemar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gemar"
    title: "Charles Gemar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Donald_Gemar"
    title: "Charles Donald Gemar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gemar"
    title: "Charles Gemar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gemar"
    title: "Charles Gemar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Gemar"
    title: "Sam Gemar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gemar"
    title: "Charles Gemar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gemar"
    title: "Charles Gemar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%2C_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B7_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B4"
    title: "Гемар, Чарлз Доналд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_D._Gemar"
    title: "Charles D. Gemar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1064149"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump