# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-l-polansky
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:33:47.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-l-polansky"
name: "Mark L. Polansky"
slug: "mark-l-polansky"
description: "Mark Lewis Polansky is an American aerospace engineer and research pilot and a former NASA astronaut. Polansky received the nickname \"Roman\" as a joke, because he shares a last name with director Roman Polanski. He flew on three Space Shuttle missions: STS-98, STS-116, and STS-127 and was first person of Korean ancestry in space."
tagline: "American astronaut, pilot"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mark_Polansky.jpg?width=1200"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1956-06-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             2.049830124575312
  historical:           19.50497066666667
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump