# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-d-halsell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:55:30.290Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-d-halsell"
name: "James D. Halsell"
slug: "james-d-halsell"
description: "James Donald Halsell Jr. is a retired United States Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut. The veteran of five Space Shuttle missions pled guilty in 2021 to two counts of manslaughter and two counts of assault as a result of a motor vehicle accident in 2016. He is the second American astronaut to spend time in jail after Lisa Nowak."
tagline: "American astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Halsell.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1956-09-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.96519333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "James D. Halsell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Halsell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Halsell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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