# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shane-kimbrough
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:34:53.393Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shane-kimbrough"
name: "Shane Kimbrough"
slug: "shane-kimbrough"
description: "Robert Shane Kimbrough is a retired United States Army officer and NASA astronaut. He was part of the first group of candidates selected for NASA astronaut training following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Kimbrough is a veteran of three spaceflights, the first being a Space Shuttle flight, and the second being a six-month mission to the ISS on board a Russian Soyuz craft. He was the commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 50, and returned to Earth in April 2017. He is married to the former Robbie Lynn Nickels."
tagline: "American astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shanekimbroughv2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1967-06-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.33
  momentum:             12.53012048192771
  historical:           20.37073733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/astro_kimbrough"
    handle:    "astro_kimbrough"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/astro_kimbrough/"
    handle:    "astro_kimbrough"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kimbrough"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump