# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-f-overmyer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:36:39.615Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-f-overmyer"
name: "Robert F. Overmyer"
slug: "robert-f-overmyer"
description: "Robert Franklyn Overmyer was an American test pilot, naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, physicist, United States Marine Corps officer, and USAF/NASA astronaut. Overmyer was selected by the Air Force as an astronaut for its Manned Orbiting Laboratory in 1966. Upon cancellation of the program in 1969, he became a NASA astronaut and served support crew duties for the Apollo program, Skylab program, and Apollo–Soyuz Test Project. In 1976, he was assigned to the Space Shuttle program and flew as pilot on STS-5 in 1982 and as commander on STS-51-B in 1985. He was selected as a lead investigator into the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, retiring from NASA that same year. A decade later, Overmyer died while testing the Cirrus VK-30 homebuilt aircraft."
tagline: "American astronaut (1936–1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Overmyer_robert_4.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1936-07-14"
deathDate: "1996-03-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump