# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-crippen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:36:40.699Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-crippen"
name: "Robert Crippen"
slug: "robert-crippen"
description: "Robert Laurel Crippen is an American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and astronaut. He traveled into space four times: as pilot of STS-1 in April 1981, the first Space Shuttle mission; and as commander of STS-7 in June 1983, STS-41-C in April 1984, and STS-41-G in October 1984. He was also a part of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), Skylab Medical Experiment Altitude Test (SMEAT), ASTP support crew member, and the Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) for the Space Shuttle."
tagline: "American astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Crippen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1937-09-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.735144
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 228
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump