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The photo and the jump suit of Leland Melvin are at the Lynchburg Museum, Lynchburg, Virginia.

Leland D. Melvin was born in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1964, attended Heritage High School there and then the University of Richmond (1982-85) on a football scholarship, receiving a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. In 1991 he received a M.S. degree in Materials Science Engineering at the University of Virginia. His football skills (first in the University of Richmond’s all-time receptions and Associated Press All-America honorable mention in 1984 and 1985) led to the Detroit Lions drafting him in 1986 as a wide receiver. He pulled a hamstring and was released from the team; the next year he pulled a hamstring again, this time with the Dallas Cowboys; this ended his professional football career.

“Melvin began working in Nondestructive Evaluation Sciences Branch at NASA Langley Research Center in 1989. His responsibilities included using optical fiber sensors to measure strain, temperature, and chemical damage in both composite and metallic structures. In 1994, he was selected to lead the Vehicle Health Monitoring team for the cooperative Lockheed/NASA X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle program. In 1996, he co-designed and monitored construction of an optical NDE facility capable of producing in-line fiber optic sensors.” [quoted from Wikipedia]

In 1998 he was selected as an astronaut and “flew two missions on the Space Shuttle Atlantis: as a mission specialist on STS-122 (February 7–20, 2008), and as mission specialist 1 on STS-129 (November 16–27, 2009).” He is currently the NASA Associate Administrator for Education, assuming that position in October 2010. He’s traveled across the country encouraging students in pursuits of math, engineering, science and technology.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_D._Melvin
www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/melvin.html

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Taken on: December 31, 2010

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