Dianne Kasnic Prinz (1938-2002)

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Dianne Kasnic Prinz (29.09.1938-12.10.2002)

Dianne Kasnic Prinz została wyselekcjonowana w ramach NASA Specjaliści ładunku Spacelab 2 (1978).

Została pierwszą kobietą, która szkoliła się jako specjalistka ładunku w programie STS.

1960 uzyskała tytuł licencjata fizyki na University of Pittsburgh.

1967 uzyskała tytuł doktora fizyki na Johns Hopkins University.

1967-1971 pracowała jako pracownik naukowy na Physics Department of the University of Maryland.

1971-2001 pracowała jako fizyk w Naval Research Laboratory w Waszyngtonie.
Zajmowała się badaniem związków między Słońcem i Ziemią.
Brała udział w pracach nad rozwojem instrumentów optycznych do obserwacji z pokładu wahadłowca.

Była jednym z kierowników eksperymentu SUSIM - obserwacji Słońca w zakresie ultrafioletowym, który przeprowadzono na pokładzie laboratorium Spacelab-2.

05.1984 została przydzielona jako dublerka specjalisty ładunku użytecznego Johna-Davida Bartoe. Podczas lotu pracowała w grupie wsparcia w Houston.

Latem 1985 została przydzielona jako główna specjalistka ładunku w kolejnej misji teleskopu rentgenowskiego Spacelab, Sunlab-1, zaplanowanej na koniec 1987.

Z powodu katastrofy wahadłowca Challenger lot został anulowany.

02.2001 z powodu choroby przeszła na emeryturę z Naval Research Laboratory.

W momencie przejścia na emeryturę była kierownikiem Solar Radiation Section w Solar Physics Branch w Space Science Division of the Naval Research Laboratory.
Nadzorowała pracę zespołu naukowców, który prowadził eksperyment SUSIM (Solar Ultraviolet Irradiance Monitor) na satelicie UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite).

12.10.2002 Dianne Kasnic Prinz zmarła w Hospicjum Północnej Wirginii w wieku 64. lat po długiej walce z rakiem
węzłów chłonnych (lymphoma).

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Dianne K. Prinz
October 18, 2002 By Graeme Zielinski

Space Scientist For Naval Research Laboratory

Dianne Kasnic Prinz, 64, a space scientist for the Naval Research Laboratory, where she worked from 1967 until retiring because of illness in 2000, died of lymphoma Oct. 12 at the Hospice of Northern Virginia in Arlington. She had lived in Alexandria since 1967.

In the 1970s, Dr. Prinz was the first woman selected to be trained as a payload specialist by NASA and she was scheduled to be sent into space before her flight was canceled after the 1986 Challenger explosion.

She led research in the 1970s that resulted in obtaining pictures of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation. And since the 1980s, she supervised work that measured the sun's ultraviolet output, establishing an important baseline currently in use by astrophysicists to determine changes in the sun.

She worked in a field dominated by men. In the early 1970s, when she was an official involved in a satellite launch at the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico, Dr. Prinz had to improvise, because there were no women's restrooms.

In a 1978 interview with The Washington Post, she recalled in amazement that a NASA official asked her if she had any makeup requests for her upcoming space mission.

That mission, to oversee an experimental payload called SUSIM (Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor), was canceled, though the device, highly anticipated by space scientists, was later launched in 1991.

In the Post interview, Dr. Prinz said she was attracted to science as a child growing up the daughter of a coal miner on a farm outside Pittsburgh. "There were lots of chemicals around, so I got interested in chemistry," she said.

She won scholarships to the University of Pittsburgh, where she received a bachelor's degree in physics. She later received a doctorate in physics from Johns Hopkins University.

Her awards included a Navy Award of Merit for Group Achievement, the NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award and the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award.

She was a member of the Washington Academy of Sciences and Sigma Xi and had been vice president of the Washington chapter of the Optical Society of America.

Dr. Prinz volunteered for the Navy Community Outreach Program and gave lectures about space research in her NASA flight suit at schools in the Washington area.

Her marriage to Gary Prinz ended in divorce.

Survivors include her father, Joseph Kasnic of Conway, Pa.; a sister; and a brother.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2002/10/19/dianne-k-prinz/6599f052-f26b-49a5-b62e-d351ddc5ba9e/

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