# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janet-l-kavandi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:58:32.414Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/janet-l-kavandi"
name: "Janet L. Kavandi"
slug: "janet-l-kavandi"
description: "Janet Lynn Kavandi is an American scientist and a NASA astronaut. She is a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions, served as NASA's deputy chief of the Astronaut Office, and was the center director at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, from March 2016 until her retirement from NASA in September 2019. She was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2019."
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birthDate: "1959-07-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump