# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laurel-clark
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:34:30.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laurel-clark"
name: "Laurel Clark"
slug: "laurel-clark"
description: "Laurel Blair Clark was an American NASA astronaut, medical doctor, United States Navy captain, and Space Shuttle mission specialist. She died along with her six fellow crew members in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Clark was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor."
tagline: "NASA astronaut, medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, and Space Shuttle mission specialist (1961-2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Laurel_Clark%2C_NASA_photo_portrait_in_blue_suit.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1961-03-10"
deathDate: "2003-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.88
  momentum:             11.34
  historical:           21.45391333333334
  currentAttention:     5.720000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 112
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3534922/"
    handle:    "nm3534922"
sources:
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    title: "Laurel Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "লৰেল ক্লাৰ্ক"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Laurel Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Laurel Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Λόρελ Κλαρκ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Laurel Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Laurel Blair Salton Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Clark"
    title: "Laurel Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لارل کلارک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Laurel Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Clark"
    title: "Laurel Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Laurel Blair Salton Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "לורל קלארק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "लॉरेल क्लॉर्क"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Լորել Քլարկ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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