# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-a-pailes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:36:09.104Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-a-pailes"
name: "William A. Pailes"
slug: "william-a-pailes"
description: "William Arthur Pailes  is a former USAF astronaut in the Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program during the mid-1980s. He served as a payload specialist on STS-51-J Atlantis."
tagline: "American astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WilliamAPailes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1952-06-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.94118133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Pailes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Уилям Пейлс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pailes"
    title: "William Pailes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Pailes"
    title: "William A. Pailes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Pailes"
    title: "William A. Pailes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "ویلیام ای پیلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Pailes"
    title: "William A. Pailes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Pailes"
    title: "William A. Pailes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Arthur_Pailes"
    title: "William Arthur Pailes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Pailes"
    title: "William A. Pailes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pailes"
    title: "William Pailes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pailes"
    title: "William Pailes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B7%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%90%D1%80%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80"
    title: "Пейлз, Уильям Артур"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump