# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norman-thagard
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:23:53.312Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norman-thagard"
name: "Norman Thagard"
slug: "norman-thagard"
description: "Norman Earl Thagard is an American scientist and former U.S. Marine Corps officer and naval aviator and NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five space flights and on March 14, 1995, he became the first American to ride to space on board a Russian vehicle, the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft for the Russian Mir-18 mission."
tagline: "United States Marine Corps officer, aviator and astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thagard-ne.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-07-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  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