# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-melvill
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:02:07.346Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-melvill"
name: "Mike Melvill"
slug: "mike-melvill"
description: "Michael Winston Melvill was a South African-born American world-record-breaking pilot and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites. Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first flight past the edge of space, flight 15P on June 21, 2004, thus becoming the first commercial astronaut, and the 435th person to go into space. He was also the pilot on SpaceShipOne's flight 16P, the first competitive flight in the Ansari X Prize competition."
tagline: "Test pilot"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mike_Melvill_crop_by_Don_Ramey_Logan_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1940-11-30"
deathDate: "2026-03-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.58160933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Mike Melvill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ميك ميلڤيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Melvill"
    title: "Mike Melvill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Melvill"
    title: "Mike Melvill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Melvill"
    title: "Michael Melvill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Melvill"
    title: "Mike Melvill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Melvill"
    title: "Mike Melvill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Melvill"
    title: "Mike Melvill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%85%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "مایک ملویل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Melvill"
    title: "Mike Melvill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Melvill"
    title: "Mike Melvill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Melvill"
    title: "Mike Melvill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Melvill"
    title: "Mike Melvill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Melvill"
    title: "Mike Melvill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Мелвилл, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Melvill"
    title: "Mike Melvill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q918798"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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