# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ronald-j-garan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:50:08.918Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ronald-j-garan"
name: "Ronald J. Garan"
slug: "ronald-j-garan"
description: "Ronald John Garan Jr. is an American retired NASA astronaut. After graduating from State University of New York College at Oneonta in 1982, he joined the Air Force, becoming a Second Lieutenant in 1984. He became an F-16 pilot, and flew combat missions in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Before becoming an astronaut he was the Operations Officer of the 40th Flight Test Squadron (FTS). He first flew in space as a mission specialist on the May 2008 STS-124 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). He returned to ISS on April 4, 2011, for a six-month stay as a member of Expedition 27. Garan is a highly decorated former NASA astronaut who flew on the US Space Shuttle, Russian Soyuz, and International Space Station. In total he spent 178 days in space and more than 71 million miles in 2,842 orbits of Earth, 27 hours and 3 minutes of EVA in four spacewalks, and 18 days on the bottom of the ocean during the NEEMO-9 undersea mission."
tagline: "American astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Garan_v2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1961-10-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.99
  momentum:             12.6530612244898
  historical:           20.16332133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "Astro_Ron"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5649993/"
    handle:    "nm5649993"
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    title: "Ronald Garan"
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    title: "Ronald Garan"
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    title: "Ronald Garan"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump