# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-c-mccool
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:37:08.352Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-c-mccool"
name: "William C. McCool"
slug: "william-c-mccool"
description: "William Cameron \"Willie\" McCool was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut, who was the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107. He and the rest of the crew of STS-107 were killed when Columbia disintegrated during reentry into the atmosphere. McCool was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor."
tagline: "U.S. Navy Commander, NASA astronaut and the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia which was destroyed during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere in 2003"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Cameron_McCool.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
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  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1961-09-23"
deathDate: "2003-02-01"
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