Janet L. Kavandi

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**Janet Lynn Kavandi**
Astronaut

Nationality	American
Born	July 17, 1959 Springfield, Missouri
Occupation¹	Chemist
Space time	33d 20h 08m
Selection	1994 NASA Group
Mission(s)	STS-91, STS-99, STS-104
Mission insignia
¹ previous or current

Janet Lynn Kavandi, a native of Springfield, Missouri, is an American astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions.

Kavandi graduated Valedictorian in 1977 from Carthage Senior High School - Carthage, Missouri. She went on to earn degrees in chemistry from Missouri Southern State College (bachelor's, 1980), the University of Missouri–Rolla (masters, 1982), and the University of Washington - Seattle (doctorate, 1990). She worked for Boeing during the 1980s on defense projects. She was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1994 and first flew aboard STS-91 in 1998 as a mission specialist and then on STS-99 in 2000. She worked on the robotic manipulator systems for both the shuttle and International Space Station and was part of mission STS-104, an ISS assembly flight.

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