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Leland D. Melvin, an Uncommon card
Leland Devon Melvin is an American engineer and a retired NASA astronaut.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 60
- Power
- 124
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 43,000
Power 124 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Leland D. Melvin quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Leland D. Melvin card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Prior to joining NASA, he was a ______ football player.
Answer
professional. Prior to joining NASA, he was a professional football player. From the Leland D. Melvin article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Melvin was named the NASA Associate Administrator for Education in October ____.
Answer
2010s. Melvin was named the NASA Associate Administrator for Education in October 2010. From the Leland D. Melvin article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He served on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis as a mission specialist on STS-122, and as mission specialist 1 on STS-129.
- Melvin was named the NASA Associate Administrator for Education in October 2010.
- Prior to joining NASA, he was a professional football player.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Leland D. Melvin article was read about 43,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 60: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Leland D. Melvin
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Leland D. Melvin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The White House, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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