JSC2001-00898 (9 March 2001) --- Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, mission specialist.

Executive Vice President, Sierra Space, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Janet Kavandi participates in a panel discussion titled “Technology Drives Exploration: Paving the Next Era of Space Exploration” during the 36th Space Symposium, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Executive Vice President, Sierra Space, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Janet Kavandi participates in a panel discussion titled “Technology Drives Exploration: Paving the Next Era of Space Exploration” during the 36th Space Symposium, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Former astronaut and current director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Dr. Janet Kavandi, provides remarks at a bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues briefing on NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Former astronaut and current director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Dr. Janet Kavandi, provides remarks at a bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues briefing on NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Former NASA astronaut Janet Kavandi speaks about her time in space at a STEM day session with students during the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Director of NASA's Glenn Research Center, Dr. Janet Kavandi answers a question from the audience at a bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues event on NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Former astronaut and current director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Dr. Janet Kavandi, provides remarks at a bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues briefing on NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

Veteran NASA astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in a public ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction on April 6, 2019.

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, daughters Malia, left, Sasha, and Astronaut Janet Kavandi walk under the landing gear from beneath the nose of space shuttle Atlantis as they visit Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, April 29, 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

President Barack Obama, daughters Malia, left, Sasha, and Astronaut Janet Kavandi walk under the landing gear from beneath the nose of space shuttle Atlantis as they visit Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, April 29, 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, daughters Malia, left, Sasha, and Astronaut Janet Kavandi walk under the landing gear from beneath the nose of space shuttle Atlantis as they visit Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, April 29, 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Director of the Technology Demonstration Missions Program, Trudy Kortes moderates a panel discussion titled “Technology Drives Exploration: Paving the Next Era of Space Exploration” with NASA Senior Advisor for Budget and Finance Bhavya Lal; Director of the Program Management Office at MSI STEM Research and Development Consortium (MSRDC), Latonia Jones; Vice President and General Manager, Commercial Civil Space, Lockheed Martin Space, Lisa Callahan; and Executive Vice President, Sierra Space, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Janet Kavandi, right, during the 36th Space Symposium, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Johnson Space Center Director of Flight Crew Operations, and Astronaut, Janet Kavandi speaks at an event where NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced where four space shuttle orbiters will be permanently displayed at the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program, Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The four orbiters, Enterprise, which currently is on display at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport, will move to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York, Discovery will move to Udvar-Hazy, Endeavour will be displayed at the California Science Center in Los Angeles and Atlantis, in background, will be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor’s Complex. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Dr. Marla Perez-Davis, GRC Deputy Center Director, Ralph Roe, NASA Chief Engineer, Dr. Janet Kavandi, GRC Center Director, and Terrence Wilcutt, NASA Chief Safety and Mission Assurance, address an audience of GRC managers during a Lessons In Leadership Series, Executive Leadership Workshop at Glenn Research Center. August 13, 2019.

NASA astronauts Doug Wheelock, left, Alvin Drew, second from right, Jeanette Epps, right, and former astronauts Janet Kavandi, second from left, and Bob Curbeam, center, spoke about their time in space at a STEM day session with students during the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, former astronaut and current director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Dr. Janet Kavandi, and NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, are seen on a panel at a bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues briefing on NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Dr. Marla Perez-Davis, GRC Deputy Center Director, Ralph Roe, NASA Chief Engineer, Dr. Janet Kavandi, GRC Center Director, and Terrence Wilcutt, NASA Chief Safety and Mission Assurance, address an audience of GRC managers during a Lessons In Leadership Series, Executive Leadership Workshop at Glenn Research Center. August 13, 2019.

Dr. Marla Perez-Davis, GRC Deputy Center Director, Ralph Roe, NASA Chief Engineer, Dr. Janet Kavandi, GRC Center Director, and Terrence Wilcutt, NASA Chief Safety and Mission Assurance, address an audience of GRC managers during a Lessons In Leadership Series, Executive Leadership Workshop at Glenn Research Center. August 13, 2019.

President Barack Obama holds hands with his daughter Malia as they walk under the space shuttle Atlantis during a tour the first family received of the the NASA Orbital Processing Facility given by Director of Flight Crew Operations for the Johnson Space Center and Astronaut, Janet Kavandi, right, at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, April 29, 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, left, Alvin Drew, second from left, Doug Wheelock, right, and former astronauts Bob Curbeam, center, and Janet Kavandi, second from right, spoke about their time in space at a STEM day session with students during the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

From left to right, Director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Dr. Janet Kavandi, Representative Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, and Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Jenniffer González-Colón, R-Puerto Rico, speak to each other at the conclusion of a bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues briefing on NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Terry White, United Space Alliance project lead for thermal protection systems, left, shows President Barack Obama and his family, from left, First Lady Michelle Obama, Malia, Marian Robinson and Sasha, how tiles work on the space shuttle during their visit to the Orbital Processing Facility at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, April 29, 2011. Looking on is Director of Flight Crew Operations for the Johnson Space Center and Astronaut, Janet Kavandi. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, daughters Malia, Sasha, and the First Lady's mother Marian Robinson, are shown the space shuttle Atlantis during a tour of the Orbital Processing Facility by NASA Astronaut Janet Kavandi during their visit to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, April 29, 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, daughters Malia, left, Sasha, Marian Robinson, Astronaut Janet Kavandi and United Space Alliance project lead for thermal protection systems Terry White, walk under the landing gear of the space shuttle Atlantis as they visit Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, April 29, 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

President Barack Obama holds hands with his daughter Malia as they walk under the space shuttle Atlantis with First Lady Michelle Obama, Sasha, and Marian Robinson during a tour they received of the NASA Orbital Processing Facility given by Astronaut, Janet Kavandi, and United Space Alliance project lead for thermal protection systems Terry White, right, at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, April 29, 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

JSC2001-00021 (January 2001) --- Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, STS-104 mission specialist, is assisted by a diver during an emergency bailout training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near Johnson Space Center (JSC). Kavandi will join four other astronauts for a June mission with the International Space Station (ISS).

S99-05617 (19 May 1999) --- Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, mission specialist, listens to a briefing about emergency egress procedures during a training session at the Johnson Space Center's Systems Integration Facility. Kavandi wears a training version of the partial pressure launch and entry garment.

JSC2000-00922 (27 January 2000) --- Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, mission specialist, waves to colleagues prior to departing Ellington Field in a T-38 jet aircraft, destination Florida. Kavandi will join five other astronauts next week for a scheduled launch into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.

STS-91 Mission Specialist Janet Lynn Kavandi gets some help with her flight suit from David Brandt in the White Room at Launch Pad 39A. He and white room crew member Greg Lohning will assist Kavandi to enter the Space Shuttle Discovery through the hatch seen in the background

S99-05726 (26 May 1999) --- Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, mission specialist, is about to be lowered into a deep pool for an underwater training session. The training took place at the Johnson Space Center's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL), part of the Sonny Carter Training Center. Kavandi has weights on the training version of her extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) which help to provide neutral buoyancy in the pool. Astronauts Kavandi and Gerhard P.J. Thiele were participating in a rehearsal of a contingency space walk for the STS-99 mission.

S99-E-5538 (16 February 2000) --- Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, mission specialist, supports the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) during Red Team duties on Endeavour's aft flight deck.

S99-E-5480 (16 February 2000) --- Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, mission specialist, sports a pair of sunglasses while looking at the bright Earth aboard Endeavour's flight deck.

S99-E-5540 (16 February 2000) --- Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, mission specialist, appears to enjoy her Red Team duties on Endeavour's flight deck.

STS099-312-034 (11-22 February 2000) ---Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, mission specialist, works with camera equipment on the middeck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Endeavour.

JSC2001-E-19298 (25 June 2001) --- Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, STS-104 mission specialist, explains some of her anticipated duties during a pre-flight press conference at Johnson Space Center (JSC).

JSC2001-E-22796 (25 July 2001) --- Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, STS-104 mission specialist, addresses a crowd at Ellington Field’s Hangar 990 for a crew return ceremony.

STS091-349-005 (2-12 June 1998) --- Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, mission specialist, performs a check of the Orbiter Space Vision Systems (OSVS) on the flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Discovery.

From left to right, U.S. Representative Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., former astronaut and current director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Dr. Janet Kavandi, NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, U.S. resident commissioner of Puerto Rico, Jenniffer González-Colón, R-Puerto Rico, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine pose for a photo just before a bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues briefing on NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

S99-05718 (26 May 1999) --- Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, mission specialist, checks her communications head gear as she stands on a movable platform. Minutes later she was lowered into a nearby deep pool for an underwater training session at the Johnson Space Center's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL), part of the Sonny Carter Training Center. Kavandi has weights on the training version of her extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) which help to provide neutral buoyancy in the pool. Astronauts Kavandi and Gerhard P.J. Thiele were participating in a rehearsal of a contingency space walk.

STS091-360-010 (2-12 June 1998) --- Astronauts Wendy B. Lawrence (left) and Janet L. Kavandi are pictured on the flight deck of the Space Shuttle Discovery during rendezvous operations with Russia's Mir space station. Kavandi prepares to use a 35mm still camera. The two mission specialists joined four other Discovery crew members for the flight to Mir, from which they later retrieved astronaut Andrew S.W. Thomas.

STS104-313-016 (12-24 July 2001) --- Astronauts Susan J. Helms (left) and Janet L. Kavandi reunite in the Destiny laboratory aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Kavandi is a mission specialist on the STS-104 Atlantis crew and Helms is a flight engineer for the Expedition Two crew which has been aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for several months.

JSC2001-00003 (January 2001) --- Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, STS-104 mission specialist, is assisted by SCUBA-equipped divers during an emergency bailout training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near Johnson Space Center (JSC). Kavandi will join four other astronauts for a June mission with the International Space Station (ISS).

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S104-E-5078 (15 July 2001) --- Cosmonaut Yury V. Usachev, Expedition Two mission commander, and Janet L. Kavandi, STS-104 mission specialist, pose in front of the crewlock endcone of the newly installed Quest Airlock. Usachev represents Rosaviakosmos.

STS099-327-003 (11-22 February 2000) --- Astronauts Gerhard P.J. Thiele and Janet L. Kavandi of the Red Team check Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data takes on the flight deck of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Both are mission specialists, with Thiele representing the European Space Agency (ESA).

S104-E-5058 (14 July 2001) --- STS-104 crewmembers Steven W. Lindsey, mission commander, and Janet L. Kavandi, mission specialist, travel through the Zarya module during their visit to the International Space Station (ISS).

JSC2001-E-22790 (25 July 2001) --- Astronauts Janet L. Kavandi (left), STS-104 mission specialist, and Steven W. Lindsey, mission commander, are greeted by JSC Acting Director Roy S. Estess following crew arrival at Ellington Field.

S104-E-5114 (16 July 2001) --- Janet L. Kavandi, STS-104 mission specialist, looks over the Canadarm2, Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS), control station in the Destiny laboratory during STS-104's visit to the International Space Station (ISS).

STS099-315-008 (11-22 February 2000) ---Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, mission specialist, is photographed near the Payload General Support Computers (PGSC) dealing with the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) on the middeck of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.

STS099-317-035 (11-22 February 2000) --- Astronauts (from left) Janet L. Kavandi, Dominic L. Gorie and Mamoru Mohri float on Endeavour's mid deck during one of the eleven-day SRTM mission's lighter moments.

S99-10568 (24 August 1999) --- Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, mission specialist, participates in a training exercise in preparation for her upcoming flight aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. She is on the mid deck of one of the shuttle trainers in the Johnson Space Center's Systems Integration Facility.

S104-E-5104 (16 July 2001) --- Janet L. Kavandi, STS-104 mission specialist, connects cables and hoses from the newly installed Quest Airlock to Unity Node 1. Other STS-104 and Expedition Two crewmembers are visible in the background working in the Airlock.

From left, Pilot of the first space shuttle mission, STS-1, Bob Crippen, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, NASA Johnson Space Center Director of Flight Crew Operations, and Astronaut, Janet Kavandi, NASA Kennedy Space Center Director and former astronaut Bob Cabana, and Endeavour Vehicle Manager for United Space Alliance Mike Parrish pose for a photograph outside of the an Orbiter Processing Facility with the space shuttle Atlantis shortly after Bolden announced where four space shuttle orbiters will be permanently displayed at the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program, Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The four orbiters, Enterprise, which currently is on display at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport, will move to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York, Discovery will move to Udvar-Hazy, Endeavour will be displayed at the California Science Center in Los Angeles and Atlantis, in background, will be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor’s Complex. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

S99-05721 (26 May 1999) --- Astronaut Gerhard P.J. Thiele, mission specialist representing the European Space Agency (ESA), awaits his helment as he stands on a movable platform. Minutes later, he and astronaut Janet L. Kavandi (not visible behind Thiele)were lowered into the nearby pool for an underwater training session at the Johnson Space Center's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL), part of the Sonny Carter Training Center. Thiele and Kavandi have weights on the training version of their extravehicular mobility units (EMU) which help to provide neutral buoyancy in the deep pool. The astronauts were participating in a rehearsal of a contingency space walk.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- On Launch Pad 39B, STS-104 Mission Specialist Janet Lynn Kavandi pauses for the camera as she and other crew members, who are seated in Space Shuttle Atlantis, get ready for a simulated countdown exercise. The simulation is part of Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities. At left is Pilot Charles O. Hobaugh; behind Kavandi is Mission Specialist Michael L. Gernhardt. The launch of Atlantis on mission STS-104 is scheduled July 12. The mission is the 10th flight to the International Space Station and carries the Joint Airlock Module and High Pressure Gas Assembly

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JSC2010-E-046795 (5 April 2010) --- John McCullough (right), chief of the Flight Director Office; Janet Kavandi, deputy director, Flight Crew Operations; and flight director Bryan Lunney are pictured in the space shuttle flight control room in the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center during launch countdown activities a few hundred miles away in Florida, site of space shuttle Discovery's STS-131 launch.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-104 crew poses in front of the Joint Airlock Module in the Space Station Processing Facility. Standing, left to right, are Pilot Charles Hobaugh, Mission Specialists James Reillly, Janet Kavandi and Michael Gernhardt, and Commander Steven Lindsey. They are at KSC to continue Crew Equipment Interface Test activities such as payload familiarization. The airlock is the primary payload on their mission, scheduled to launch no earlier than June 14, 2001, from Launch Pad 39B

S99-05616 (19 May 1999) --- Astronauts Gerhard P.J. Thiele and Janet L. Kavandi await a briefing about emergency egress procedures during a training session at the Johnson Space Center's Systems Integration Facility. Thiele represents the European Space Agency (ESA). Other STS-99 crew members are out of frame at right.

JSC2000-01646 (23 February 2000) --- Three members of the STS-99 crew are greeted by JSC Director George W.S. Abbey following their arrival at Ellington Field, near the Johnson Space Center (JSC). From the left are astronauts Janet L. Kavandi, Janice Voss and Gerhard P.J. Thiele, all mission specialists. Thiele represents the European Space Agency (ESA).

At the Shuttle Landing Facility, STS-99 Mission Specialist Gerhard Thiele (left) joins Mission Specialist Janet Kavandi with her daughter before their departure for Houston. The STS-99 crew completed a successful 11-day Shuttle Radar Topography Mission mapping 47 million square miles of the Earth's surface before landing at KSC Feb. 22

A student asks a panel of NASA astronauts including Doug Wheelock, Alvin Drew, Jeanette Epps, and former astronauts Janet Kavandi, and Bob Curbeam, a question about their time in space at a STEM day session during the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

JSC2001-E-22791 (25 July 2001) --- JSC Acting Director Roy S. Estess introduces the STS-104 crew members to a crowd gathered in Ellington Field’s Hangar 990 during crew return ceremonies. Seated (from left) are Michael L. Gernhardt, James F. Reilly, Janet L. Kavandi, all mission specialists, along with Steven W. Lindsey and Charles O. Hobaugh, mission commander and pilot, respectively.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- STS-104 Mission Specialist Janet Lynn Kavandi arrives at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility to make final preparations for launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis July 12. The mission is the 10th assembly flight to the International Space Station and carries the Joint Airlock Module, which will become the primary path for spacewalk entry and departure using both U.S. spacesuits and the Russian Orlan spacesuit for EVA activity

STS104-337-004 (12-24 July 2001) --- The STS-104 astronauts took a moment from a busy agenda to pose for their traditional in-flight crew portrait. In front are astronauts Steven W. Lindsey (left) and Charles O. Hobaugh, commander and pilot, respectively. From left in back are astronauts Michael L. Gernhardt, Janet L. Kavandi and James F. Reilly, all mission specialists.

The STS-99 crew get ready to leave KSC with their families for a return trip to Houston. From left are Mission Specialist Janice Voss, Pilot Dominic Gorie, Commander Kevin Kregel, and Mission Specialists Mamoru Mohri of Japan, Gerhard Thiele of Germany, and Janet Kavandi, holding her daughter. The STS-99 crew completed a successful 11-day Shuttle Radar Topography Mission mapping 47 million square miles of the Earth's surface before landing at KSC Feb. 22

STS104-312-010 (12-24 July 2001) --- While two crew mates moved around outside the shuttle on one of three space walks to perform work on the International Space Station (ISS), these three astronauts supported the extravehicular activity (EVA) chores from inside the crew cabin of the Atlantis. They are, from the left, Charles O. Hobaugh, pilot; Janet L. Kavandi, flight engineer and mission specialist; and Steven W. Lindsey, commander.

JSC2001-E-19296 (25 June 2001) --- Astronauts James F. Reilly (left), Janet L. Kavandi, Michael L. Gernhardt, all STS-104 mission specialists; along with Charles O. Hobaugh and Steven W. Lindsey, pilot and mission commander, respectively, are photographed during a pre-flight press conference at Johnson Space Center (JSC).

JSC2001-00082 (January 2001) --- Astronauts Michael L. Gernhardt (left) and Janet L. Kavandi, both mission specialists, are pictured while in training at the Systems Integration Facility at Johnson Space Center (JSC). The STS-104 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) represents the Space Shuttle Atlantis' first flight using a new engine and is targeted for a liftoff no earlier than June 14, 2001.

S99-E-5258 (13 February 2000) --- Astronauts Kevin R. Kregel (left), mission commander, and Gerhard P.J. Thiele demonstrate mapping techniques for the Space Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) using a payload-equipped Shuttle and a globe on Endeavour's flight deck. The two are joined by astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, mission specialist, on the SRTM's Red Team. Thiele is a mission specialist representing the European Space Agency (ESA).

STS091-362-005 (2-12 June 1998) --- Four of the seven STS-91 crew members check the morning mail on the mid deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Discovery toward the end of the scheduled ten-day mission. Left to right are astronauts Charles J. Precourt, commander; Andrew S.W. Thomas, mission specialist; Dominic C. Gorie, pilot; and Janet L. Kavandi, mission specialist. The emergency escape pole, flown on all shuttle missions, runs across the top center of the frame.

JSC2001-00083 (January 2001) --- Several members of the STS-104 crew, assisted by suit technician Jim Cheatham, don training versions of the full-pressure launch and entry suit prior to a training session in one of the trainer/mockups (out of frame) in the Johnson Space Center’s Systems Integration Facility. Pictured (from right foreground) are astronauts James F. Reilly, Janet L. Kavandi, Michael L. Gernhardt, and Charles O. Hobaugh.