# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leland-d-melvin
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:16:59.616Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leland-d-melvin"
name: "Leland D. Melvin"
slug: "leland-d-melvin"
description: "Leland Devon Melvin is an American engineer and a retired NASA astronaut. He served on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis as a mission specialist on STS-122, and as mission specialist 1 on STS-129. Melvin was named the NASA Associate Administrator for Education in October 2010. Prior to joining NASA, he was a professional football player."
tagline: "NASA astronaut and engineer"
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gender: "male"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1964-02-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump