# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tamara-e-jernigan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:17:15.541Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tamara-e-jernigan"
name: "Tamara E. Jernigan"
slug: "tamara-e-jernigan"
description: "Tamara Elizabeth Jernigan is an American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut. During her career she completed five Space Shuttle program missions, logging over 1512 hours in space. Jernigan left NASA in 2001, and is Deputy Principal Associate Director in the Weapons and Complex Integration (WCI) organization at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory."
tagline: "Astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tamara_E._Jernigan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1959-05-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             1.285714285714286
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump