# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-ferguson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:29:18.479Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-ferguson"
name: "Christopher Ferguson"
slug: "christopher-ferguson"
description: "Christopher J. \"Fergy\" Ferguson is a commercial astronaut and a retired United States Navy captain and NASA astronaut. He was the pilot of Space Shuttle Atlantis on his first mission to space, STS-115, which launched on September 9, 2006, and returned to Earth on September 21, 2006. He then commanded STS-126 aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. In 2011, he was assigned as commander of STS-135, which was the final mission of the space shuttle program."
tagline: "American astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Christopher_Ferguson_2011.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: "1961-09-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.074766355140186
  historical:           20.38506533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/astro_ferg"
    handle:    "astro_ferg"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump