# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edgar-m-cortright
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:21:02.103Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edgar-m-cortright"
name: "Edgar M. Cortright"
slug: "edgar-m-cortright"
description: "Edgar Maurice Cortright was a scientist and engineer, and senior official at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States. His most prominent positions during his career were Director of NASA's Langley Research Center, and Chairman of the Apollo 13 Review Board which investigated the explosion that occurred during the Apollo 13 spaceflight in 1970."
tagline: "Senior NASA official-administrator and engineering researcher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edgar_Maurice_Cortright.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-07-29"
deathDate: "2014-05-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.60342
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cortright"
    title: "Edgar Cortright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cortright"
    title: "Edgar Cortright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cortright"
    title: "Edgar Cortright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cortright"
    title: "Edgar Cortright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cortright"
    title: "Edgar Cortright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5337184"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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