Janet L. Kavandi
- STS -91 (1998)
- STS -99 (2000)
- STS- 104 (2001)
Janet Lynn Kavandi ( born July 17, 1959 as Janet Lynn Sellers in Springfield, Missouri) is an American astronaut.
Kavandi 1980 he received a BS in chemistry from Missouri Southern State College in 1982 and a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Missouri- Rolla. From the University of Washington in Seattle 1990 she received a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry.
She worked as an engineer for the Air and Space division of Boeing.
Astronauts activity
In December 1994 Kavandi was selected by NASA as an astronaut contender and is designed for mission specialist. She then worked in the Department payloads and Habitability ( payloads and habitability ) to the payload integration for the International Space Station (ISS). After her first space flight, she was Association spokeswoman in the mission control at NASA in Houston. After her last flight into space, she was employed as Head of Payloads and Habitability. Subsequently, she became head of the department for the ISS and was responsible for all areas that have to do with the development, construction and operation of the International Space Station. Since 2005 Kavandi is Deputy Head of the Astronaut Office at the Johnson Space Center.
STS -91
On June 2, 1998 aboard the space shuttle Discovery Kavandi to their first flight into space. It was the ninth and final docking of a shuttle to the Russian space station Mir and marked the completion of a successful collaboration. Takeoff and landing took place at the Kennedy Space Center.
STS -99
On 11 February 2000 she flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavour on the so-called Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. They charted by radar 80 percent of the land mass of the earth. Two radar systems (one in the payload bay of the shuttle, the other mounted on a 60 foot mast ) probed from the surface. The result was a digital three-dimensional model of the Earth of unprecedented accuracy. To enable work around the clock, the six -man crew was divided into two teams, who worked in the 12 -hour operation. Kavandi formed with Gerhard Thiele and the commander Kevin Kregel the red team.
STS -104
On 12 July 2001 Kavandi flew aboard the space shuttle Atlantis to the ISS. Was on board the Quest airlock. Through this airlock, which was mounted during the shuttle mission to the ISS spacewalks can be performed from the ISS.
Private
Janet Kavandi and her husband John have two children.