Janet Petro

Janet E. Petro is an American engineer and civil servant serving since 2021 as the 11th director of the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). From January 20, 2025, to July 9, 2025, Petro served as the acting administrator of NASA. When then-NASA administrator Bill Nelson appointed her KSC director on June 1, 2021, Petro made history as the first woman to hold the position. She assumed the role of acting administrator on January 20, 2025, following her appointment by President Donald Trump, also becoming the first woman to hold that role.