Janet Kavandi, former deputy director at NASA’s Glenn Research Center and a NASA astronaut, has logged more than 33 days in space, traveling more than 13.1 million miles in 535 Earth orbits. Kavandi, who earned a master’s degree in chemistry from S&T in1982, was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame as a part of the Class of 2019.
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