# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-l-behnken
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:13:30.009Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-l-behnken"
name: "Robert L. Behnken"
slug: "robert-l-behnken"
description: "Robert Louis Behnken is an American engineer, a former NASA astronaut, and former Chief of the Astronaut Office."
tagline: "American astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robertbehnkenv2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1970-07-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.185185185185184
  historical:           20.19291333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "AstroBehnken"
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    title: "Bob Behnken"
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    title: "Robert Behnken"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump