Pamela Melroy

Pamela Melroy
Melroy at JSC in 2022
15th Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Incumbent
Assumed office June 21, 2021
President	Joe Biden
Preceded by	James Morhard
Personal details
Born	Pamela Ann Melroy (1961-09-17) September 17, 1961 (age 62) Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Education	Wellesley College (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS)
Space career
NASA astronaut
Time in space	38d 20h 6m
Selection	NASA Group 15 (1994)
Missions	STS-92 STS-112 STS-120
Mission insignia

Pamela Ann Melroy (born September 17, 1961) is an American retired United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut serving as the deputy administrator of NASA. She served as pilot on Space Shuttle missions STS-92 and STS-112 and commanded mission STS-120 before leaving the agency in August 2009. After serving as deputy program manager of Space Exploration Initiatives with Lockheed Martin,^[1] Melroy joined the Federal Aviation Administration in 2011, where she was a senior technical advisor and director of field operations for the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation.^[2]

In 2013, she left the FAA and joined DARPA as deputy director of the Tactical Technology Office. She left the agency in February 2017.

In November 2021, Melroy was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The ceremony, planned for May 2020, was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[3][4]