# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steven-swanson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:25:50.668Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steven-swanson"
name: "Steven Swanson"
slug: "steven-swanson"
description: "Steven Roy Swanson is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut. Swanson has flown two shuttle flights, STS-117 and STS-119, and one Soyuz flight, TMA-12M. All of the flights were to the International Space Station. He has logged over 195 days in space and completed five spacewalks totaling 27 hours and 58 minutes. Swanson has served in other roles at NASA, such as a CAPCOM for both International Space Station and Space Shuttle missions. His awards and honors include the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and the JSC Certificate of Accommodation. Prior to becoming a NASA astronaut, Swanson worked for GTE in Phoenix, Arizona, as a software engineer. He is married and has three children. Steve claims he had the first ever Instagram posted from space."
tagline: "American engineer and NASA astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steven_swanson_v2.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: "1960-12-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.575221238938053
  historical:           20.15298933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Steven Swanson"
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    title: "סטיבן סוונסון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump