# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karen-l-nyberg
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:49:18.239Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karen-l-nyberg"
name: "Karen L. Nyberg"
slug: "karen-l-nyberg"
description: "Karen LuJean Nyberg is an American mechanical engineer and retired NASA astronaut. Nyberg became the 50th woman in space on her first mission in 2008. Nyberg holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. She started her space career in 1991 and spent a total of 180 days in space in 2008 and 2013 as a mission specialist on STS-124 and a flight engineer on Soyuz TMA-09M."
tagline: "American astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karen_nyberg_v2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1969-10-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           20.81235333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "AstroKarenN"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/astrokarenn/"
    handle:    "astrokarenn"
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    handle:    "AstronautKarenNyberg"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump