# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-m-acaba
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:07:14.070Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-m-acaba"
name: "Joseph M. Acaba"
slug: "joseph-m-acaba"
description: "Joseph Michael Acabá is an American educator, hydrogeologist, and NASA astronaut. In May 2004, he became the first person of Puerto Rican ancestry to be named as a NASA astronaut candidate, when he was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut Training Group 19. He completed his training on February 10, 2006, and was assigned to STS-119, which flew from March 15 to 28, 2009, to deliver the final set of solar arrays to the International Space Station. He is the first person of Caribbean and Puerto Rican origin, and the twelfth of fifteen people of Ibero-American heritage to have flown to space as a NASA astronaut."
tagline: "Astronaut, Hydrogeologist, science teacher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Acaba_v2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1967-05-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.42
  momentum:             15
  historical:           21.00886133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/AstroAcaba"
    handle:    "AstroAcaba"
sources:
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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