Janice Elaine Voss (1956-2012)

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7 lutego 2012 roku po przegraniu walki z rakiem, zmarła amerykańska astronautka, uczestniczka pięciu lotów kosmicznych, Janice Voss.

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Ukazał się także artykuł o Janice na Kosmonaucie.

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W wieku 55 lat zmarła amerykańska astronautka Janice Elaine Voss. Brała udział w pięciu lotach wahadłowców.

7 lutego Voss przegrała walkę z rakiem. W przestrzeni kosmicznej spędziła 49 dni. Była także pierwszą kobietą, która odbyła pięć lotów na orbitę okołoziemską.

https://kosmonauta.net/2012/02/2012-02-18-janicevoss/

Tą kobietą jest Shannon Lucid , a Janice  Voss była tą astronautką , która odbyła 5 lotów kosmicznych  w najkrótszym czasie.

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Ostatni start kobiety do 5. lotu kosmicznego miał miejsce w 2001.
Ilość pełnych lat jakie potrzebowały astronautki na odbycie 5. startów kosmicznych :
Lucid              10
Dunbar           12
Jernigan           7
Voss                6
Ivins               11
Helms               8

EDIT 04.10.2023

Janice Elaine Voss (08.10.1956-06.02.2012)

Janice Elaine Voss to 295. człowiek w kosmosie oraz 24. kobieta w kosmosie.
Jej 5. lotów kosmicznych trwało łącznie 49d 03h 49m 03s.

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/voss_janice.pdf - February 6, 2012

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/voss_janice.htm - 06.02.2012
http://www.astronautix.com/v/vossjanice.html - 2012-07-02

https://mek.kosmo.cz/bio/usa/00295.htm -07.02.2012
http://www.kozmo-data.sk/kozmonauti/voss-janice-elaine.html -07.02.2012
https://www.astronaut.ru/index/in_pers/13_019.htm  - 06.02.2012
https://www.april12.eu/usaastron/voss295ru.html - 07.02.2012

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_E._Voss - 06.02.2012
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_Voss - 06.02.2012

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Astronaut Janice Voss Dies
February 7, 2012
RELEASE J12-003 Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters  Johnson Space Center, Houston

HOUSTON - NASA astronaut Janice Voss passed away from cancer overnight. One of only six women who have flown in space five times, Voss' career was highlighted by her work and dedication to scientific payloads and exploration.

"As the payload commander of two space shuttle missions, Janice was responsible for paving the way for experiments that we now perform on a daily basis on the International Space Station," said Peggy Whitson, chief of the Astronaut Office. "By improving the way scientists are able to analyze their data, and establishing the experimental methods and hardware necessary to perform these unique experiments, Janice and her crew ensured that our space station would be the site of discoveries that we haven't even imagined."

"During the last few years, Janice continued to lead our office's efforts to provide the best possible procedures to crews operating experiments on the station today," Whitson added. "Even more than Janice's professional contributions, we will miss her positive outlook on the world and her determination to make all things better."

Voss began her career with NASA in 1973 while a student at Purdue University. She returned to NASA in 1977 to work as an instructor, teaching entry guidance and navigation to space shuttle crews. After completing her doctorate in 1987, she worked within the aerospace industry until she was selected as an astronaut in 1990.

Voss' first spaceflight mission was STS-57 in 1993, the first flight of the Spacehab module. She next flew on STS-63 in 1995, a mission to the Mir space station, and third flight of Spacehab. She also flew as a payload commander on STS-83 in 1997 with the Microgravity Science Laboratory, but the mission was cut short due to problems with one of the orbiter's three fuel power generation units. Voss, the crew and MSL flew again as the STS-94 MSL-1 Spacelab mission, focused on materials and combustion science research in microgravity.

Her last mission was STS-99 in 2000, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, which mapped more than 47 million square miles of the Earth's land surface at unprecedented resolution levels. In total, Voss spent more than 49 days in space.

From 2004 to 2007, Voss served as the science director for the Kepler spacecraft at NASA's Ames Research Center. Voss most recently served as the payloads lead of the Astronaut Office's Station Branch.

For Voss' complete biography, please visit:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/voss-jan.html

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/releases/2012/J12-003.html

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Janice Voss, Shuttle Astronaut and Scientist, Dies at 55
By Dennis Hevesi Feb. 9, 2012


Janice Voss before duty as payload commander for a mission of the Shuttle Columbia.Credit...NASA

Janice Voss, a space shuttle astronaut and scientist who explored the behavior of fire in weightlessness, how plants adapt to extraterrestrial flight and an array of other phenomena while logging nearly 19 million miles circling Earth, died on Monday at a hospital in Scottsdale, Ariz. She was 55 and lived in Houston.

The cause was cancer, her mother, Louise Voss, said.

Dr. Voss was one of only six women to have gone into space five times. In her first flight, aboard the Endeavour in June 1993, she helped conduct experiments during what was also the maiden voyage of the Spacehab module, a 9,600-pound pressurized laboratory mounted in the orbiter’s payload bay. Spacehab was the first commercial laboratory launched into space, its primary purpose to offer industrial and academic researchers access to space.

Dr. Voss next flew on the Discovery in February 1995, a historic NASA mission in which a shuttle rendezvoused with a Russian space station, Mir, for the first time. During the mission Dr. Voss maneuvered the shuttle’s robot arm to grasp an astronomy satellite being deployed.

Dr. Voss’s next two flights were the only time an entire crew was launched twice to achieve the same mission. On July 1, 1997, the Columbia lifted off from Cape Canaveral four months after it had been called back from space because fuel cells on board had malfunctioned.

On that second flight, with Dr. Voss in charge of experiments as payload commander, the crew set more than 140 small fires in insulated chambers to test the behavior of fire in weightlessness. The tests were intended to gain a better understanding of how fire and heat work on Earth and also to address safety concerns after a 90-second fire flared aboard the Mir station five months earlier. She also coordinated experiments on how plants react in space, using a greenhouse containing about 50 spinach, clover, sage and periwinkle plants.

In her last mission, in February 2000 — once again aboard the Endeavour — Dr. Voss worked on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, which mapped Earth’s land surface at unprecedented resolution levels.

Logging a total of 49 days in space in her NASA career, twice as payload commander, she also did research on fluid physics and material science (growing crystals and developing metal alloys, for example), as well as medical tests to determine the effects of microgravity on the human body.

On the ground in recent years, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Dr. Voss oversaw astronauts’ training in conducting experiments in space. One trainee was Cady Coleman, who in May returned from six months on the International Space Station.

“We’re doing experiments 12 hours a day, and it’s like Christmas Eve for parents trying to put together toys that they thought would be no problem,” Ms. Coleman said on Wednesday. “Janice’s job was to make sure that the astronaut — whether he was a pilot or an engineer or a former policeman — could follow those directions. She was great at it, so clear, precise.”

Janice Elaine Voss was born in South Bend, Ind., on Oct. 8, 1956, to James and Louise Hinds Voss. Besides her parents, Dr. Voss is survived by three sisters, Linda Voss, Karen Voss and Victoria Fransham.

She was just 16 and a freshman at Purdue University when she first worked for NASA, as an intern at the Johnson Space Center. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in engineering science in 1975, she returned to the center to train crews in navigation and entry guidance. She went on to earn a master’s in electrical engineering, in 1977, and a doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics, in 1987, both at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

It all started, her mother said, when Janice was 6 and picked up a book at the local library, “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle — a fantasy in which one of the main characters is a scientist who happens to be a woman.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/science/space/janice-voss-shuttle-astronaut-and-scientist-dies-at-55.html

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NASA astronaut Janice Voss dies, flew on five space shuttle missions


Astronaut Janice Voss pictured in 2000 on the flight deck of the space shuttle Endeavour during the STS-99 mission. (NASA)

February 7, 2012 – Astronaut Janice Voss, a veteran of five spaceflights and a former science director for a NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, has died after a battle with cancer. She was 55.

"Just got the very sad news that U.S. astronaut Janice Voss passed away last night," the Association of Space Explorers, an international organization representing more than 350 individuals who have flown in space, wrote on Facebook. "Our thoughts go out to her family and friends."

NASA confirmed Voss' death in a statement released on Tuesday (Feb. 7), saying she had passed away overnight.

Chosen by NASA for the astronaut corps in January 1990, Voss served as a mission specialist on five space shuttle missions, including the only repeat flight in the program's 30 year history. She flew with the first commercial lab, rendezvoused with Russia's Mir space station and helped create the most complete digital topographic map of the Earth.


Official portrait of NASA astronaut Janice E. Voss. (NASA)

Voss launched on her first and final missions on board the shuttle Endeavour. As a member of the STS-57 crew in June 1993, she helped conduct biomedical and material science experiments in the first commercially-developed Spacehab module, a pressurized laboratory mounted in the orbiter's payload bay that more than doubled the work area for astronaut-tended activities.

In February 2000, Voss again launched on Endeavour, this time for the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. After deploying a nearly 200-foot (60-meter) mast, Voss and her crewmates worked around the clock in two shifts to map more than 47 million square miles (122 million square kilometers) of the Earth's land surface.

Her second flight to space marked the first time a space shuttle came within the vicinity of Russia's space station Mir. Flying on shuttle Discovery, Voss and her STS-63 crewmates — including Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot a U.S. spacecraft — rendezvoused with the Russian outpost to verify flight techniques, communications, and navigation and sensor aids. The February 1995 "Near-Mir" mission set the stage for the first shuttle-Mir docking later that year.

Voss' two other spaceflights, STS-83 and STS-94, were the only time in the shuttle program's history that an entire crew was launched twice to achieve the same mission. The crew's first attempt began with a liftoff on Columbia on April 4, 1997. Three days into the mission however, a problem with one of the orbiter's three power-generating fuel cells resulted in the flight being cut short and the crew members returning to Earth.


Janice Voss, shown in April 1997 working with communications systems on the aft flight deck of space shuttle Columbia. (NASA)

Three months later with Columbia back in working order, Voss and her six STS-83 crewmates launched again, this time as the STS-94 crew. During the successful 15-day flight, Voss and her fellow fliers worked inside a European Spacelab module, conducting experiments as part of the Microgravity Science Laboratory (MSL) mission.

In total, Voss logged over 49 days in space, traveling 18.8 million miles (30.3 million km) while circling the Earth 779 times. Her five missions tied her with the record for the most spaceflights by a woman.

Four years after returning to Earth for a final time, Voss transferred from Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas to NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., where she headed the science program for the agency's Kepler space observatory. Designed to search for Earth size planets orbiting distant stars, Kepler was launched in March 2009 and to date has confirmed 61 exoplanets and identified more than 2,000 planetary candidates.

Voss left Ames in 2007 and most recently served as the payload lead in the astronaut office's space station branch at the Johnson Space Center.

"As payload commander of two shuttle missions, Janice was responsible for paving the way for experiments that we now perform on a daily basis on the International Space Station," chief astronaut Peggy Whitson said in a statement. "By improving the way scientists are able to analyze their data, and establishing the experimental methods and hardware necessary to perform these unique experiments, Janice and her crew ensured that our space station would be the site of discoveries that we haven't even imagined."

"During the last few years, Janice continued to lead our office's efforts to provide the best possible procedures to crews operating experiments on the station today," she said. "Even more than Janice's professional contributions, we will miss her positive outlook on the world and her determination to make all things better."

A native of Rockford, Ill., Voss received her bachelor of science in engineering science from Purdue University in 1975, a master of science degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977 and 1987, respectively.


Janice Voss, pictured looking over a checklist on space shuttle Endeavour's aft flight deck during her final spaceflight. (NASA)

Voss' first work with NASA was during her undergraduate studies at Purdue. A member of Johnson Space Center's co-op program, she worked on computer simulations in the engineering and development directorate in the years leading up to the start of the shuttle-era. Voss returned to the Johnson in 1977 for a year, working as a crew trainer teaching entry guidance and navigation.

Before becoming an astronaut, Voss worked at the Orbital Sciences Corporation, supporting mission integration and flight operations for the Transfer Orbit Stage that launched the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite from the space shuttle in September 1993, and NASA's ill-fated Mars Observer from a Titan rocket in 1992.

A multiple recipient of NASA's Space Flight Medal, Voss donated her personal papers documenting her spaceflight career to Purdue Libraries' division of archives and special collections in 2009.

"Knowing that someone else got from here to there brightened many of my days at Purdue," Voss said at the time, referring to the university's earlier astronaut alums. "Maybe my papers will help someone else feel that they aren't that different from me."

"If I can do it, then so can they," Voss said.

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-020712a.html

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NASA Astronaut Janice Voss Dies After Courageous Fight With Cancer
By Mike Killian, on February 7th, 2012


Astronaut Janice Voss on the flight deck of shuttle Endeavour during STS-99. Voss passed away overnight after a courageous fight with cancer. Photo Credit: NASA

NASA astronaut Janice Voss – a veteran of five spaceflights – passed away overnight after a courageous battle with cancer.  She was 55 years old.

An engineering graduate of Purdue University and MIT, Voss was chosen for the astronaut corps in January 1990.  She flew on five space shuttle missions from 1993-2000.  Over the course of those five missions she logged 49 days in space and travelled nearly 19 million miles, having orbited the Earth 779 times – tying her with the record for the most spaceflights by a woman.

Voss was part of the first shuttle mission to rendezvous with Russia’s MIR space station on STS-63, flown by shuttle Discovery.  On her first flight, STS-57 aboard shuttle Endeavour, she helped conduct biomedical and material science experiments in the new Spacehab module – a pressurized laboratory mounted inside the shuttle’s payload bay.  Her final mission was flown again on shuttle Endeavour, STS-99 – a flight to the International Space Station as part of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission which mapped over 47 million square miles of the Earth’s surface.


Voss is a veteran of five space shuttle missions, having logged 49 days in space with nearly 19 million miles travelled, having orbited the Earth 779 times - tying her with the record for the most spaceflights by a woman. Photo Credit: NASA

The other two missions she flew on, STS-83 and STS-94, were quite unique in that the crew’s were the same for both of those missions – the only time in the shuttle program’s history that an entire crew launched twice to achieve the same mission.  STS-83 was a science mission to be flown by shuttle Columbia, but three days into the flight a problem occurred with one of Columbia’s fuel cells, forcing the crew to return to Earth early.  Three months passed before Columbia was ready to fly again, at which time Voss and her crew launched, this time on STS-94, to complete the Microgravity Science Laboratory mission.

“As the payload commander of two space shuttle missions, Janice was responsible for paving the way for experiments that we now perform on a daily basis on the International Space Station,” said Peggy Whitson, chief of the Astronaut Office. “By improving the way scientists are able to analyze their data, and establishing the experimental methods and hardware necessary to perform these unique experiments, Janice and her crew ensured that our space station would be the site of discoveries that we haven’t even imagined.”


STS-94 Payload Commander Janice Voss smiles and gives a thumbs-up as she is assisted into her launch/entry suit in the Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building before launching on shuttle Columbia. Photo Credit: NASA

“During the last few years, Janice continued to lead our office’s efforts to provide the best possible procedures to crews operating experiments on the station today,” Whitson added. “Even more than Janice’s professional contributions, we will miss her positive outlook on the world and her determination to make all things better.”

From 2004-2007 Voss headed the science program for the agency’s Kepler Space Observatory at NASA’s AMES Research Center at Moffett Field, CA.  After leaving AMES in 2007 she served as the payload lead in the astronaut office’s space station branch at the johnson Space Center in Houston.

For Voss’s complete biography, please visit: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/voss-jan.html

https://www.americaspace.com/2012/02/07/nasa-astronaut-janice-voss-dies-after-courageous-fight-with-cancer/

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Elgin Today July 31 with Astronaut Janice Voss
29 lip 2007



Astronaut Janice Voss talking to KSC NASAT
16 maj 2010



STS-94 Day 15 Highlights



O misjach STS-83 i STS-94 https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=800.msg141527;topicseen#msg141527

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EDIT 09.10.2023
https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1711109340453568569

Today, we remember ASE member Janice Voss on her #birthday. Voss flew to space five times between 1993 and 2000 (STS-57, STS-63, STS-83, STS-94, and STS-99). ✨