Pam Melroy

Pamela Ann Melroy is a retired United States Air Force officer and a former NASA astronaut who is the senate-confirmed 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, Space Exploration Initiatives with Lockheed Martin, 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. In 2013, she left the FAA and joined DARPA as Deputy Director of the Tactical Technology Office. She left the agency in February 2017. Melroy will be inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The ceremony, planned for May 2020, has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 98 — Inside NASA with Pam Melroy

NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy said SpaceX was making good progress on Starship: "They're beyond the we're-probably going-to-blow-up-the-pad phase."

“What I have seen moved me … as a human being.” NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, describing the first James Webb images that will be released publicly tomorrow. including the Carina Nebula, a spectrum of a giant exoplanet, and the deepest image of our universe that has ever been taken.

Former astronaut Pam Melroy sworn in as NASA deputy chief

Pam Melroy Sworn in as NASA Deputy Administrator

Pam Melroy Confirmed by Senate as NASA Deputy Administrator

Former astronaut Pam Melroy confirmed as NASA deputy administrator

Statements on Pam Melroy’s Senate Confirmation as NASA Deputy Administrator

NASA Statement on Nomination of Pam Melroy for Agency Deputy Administrator

Breaking Defense" reports on a rumor that former Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL, STS-61C) will be named NASA Administrator, with Shuttle veteran Pam Melroy as Deputy