James S. Voss

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James Voss
James Voss
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on June 5, 1987
(12th NASA Group)
Calls: 5 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		November 24, 1991
Landing of the
last space flight: 		August 22, 2001
Time in space: 202d 5h 30m
EVA inserts: 4th
EVA total duration: 22h 35m
retired on June 2003
Space flights

James Shelton "Jim" Voss (born March 3, 1949 in Cordova , Alabama ) is a former American astronaut .

Training and military service

After high school, Voss studied aerospace engineering at Auburn University in Alabama, which awarded him a bachelor's degree in 1972 . He then joined the US Army and continued his engineering studies, supported by a scholarship, at the University of Colorado . In 1974 he obtained a master’s degree .

After he had completed the basic military courses, Voss was transferred to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1975 . Here he served for four years as platoon commander and company commander as well as an intelligence officer.

Astronaut activity

Voss worked at the Johnson Space Center from November 1984 until he left NASA in 2003 . He worked on the shuttle and payload tests at the Kennedy Space Center for missions STS-51-D , 51-F , 61-C, and 51-L . He was involved in the investigations into the Challenger disaster and, taking into account the results of the investigation, worked on the resumption of space shuttle flights. He was selected as a candidate astronaut in June 1987 and trained as a mission specialist and then worked as CapCom . Voss was on the backup team for two missions to the Russian Mir space station . At that time he worked and trained for two years at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia .

On November 24, 1991, he took off on the space shuttle Atlantis for the STS-44 mission . It was a mission for the US Department of Defense . The non-secret payload contained, among other military experiments, a DSP satellite and its upper stage engine to lift the satellite into higher orbit.

STS-53 was Voss' second space flight, which took off on December 2, 1992 with the space shuttle Discovery . This mission was also carried out on behalf of the US Department of Defense, but this time with a secret payload.

On September 7, 1995, Voss started as a mission specialist with the space shuttle Endeavor for the STS-69 mission . The crew successfully deployed a SPARTAN satellite and the Wake Shield Facility and then recaptured them. Also on board was the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker payload and numerous other payloads and medical experiments. Voss conducted an outboard activity that lasted 6 hours and 46 minutes during which he tested modifications to spacesuits, procedures and tools intended for the construction of the International Space Station (ISS).

With the mission STS-101 Voss flew on May 19, 2000 with the space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station. Over 1.5 tons of equipment and supplies were brought to the ISS and repairs were carried out on electrical components and life support systems. Voss worked on the further construction of the station in 6 hours and 44 minutes during his second space activity.

Voss last started on March 8, 2001 as a flight engineer for the second long-term crew with the space shuttle Discovery ( STS-102 ) to the ISS. Other members of the second ISS crew were Yuri Usachev and Susan Helms . On March 11, 2001, Voss and Helms prepared the connection of the multi-purpose logistics module Leonardo in the longest ever outboard activity of 8 hours and 56 minutes . In another outboard activity, Voss and Ussachev exchanged a hatch in the Zvezda module for a guide cone that is required for coupling maneuvers of Progress transporters in just 19 minutes . Voss was the first to operate the Canadian robotic arm Canadarm2 (SSRMS), which was newly arrived with the STS-100 mission . Other highlights of the mission were further construction work on the ISS, 18 scientific experiments, a flight around the space station with the Soyuz spaceship , the arrival of the Quest airlock and a visit to a total of five spaceships. a. with the first space tourist Dennis Tito , on the station. After 163 days on the ISS, Voss returned to Earth on the space shuttle Discovery on the STS-105 mission on August 22, 2001.

According to NASA

Voss left NASA in June 2003 and went to Auburn University. In May 2005, he moved to Transformational Space Corporation (t / Space), which at the time was participating in NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program and developing a spacecraft that could transport passengers and cargo to the ISS. In November 2007 he went to SpaceDev . Two years later, in September 2009, he became professor of human spaceflight and aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder .

Private

Voss is married and has one daughter.

Special features and records

See also

Web links

Commons : James S. Voss  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Astronaut Jim Voss to Lead Engineering for New Space Company. SpaceRef, May 24, 2005, accessed September 23, 2009 .
  2. ^ Former Astronaut to Lead SpaceDev Engineering. SpaceDev November 7, 2007, archived from the original on January 10, 2008 ; accessed on September 23, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Astronaut Jim Voss Joins CU-Boulder Aerospace Faculty. University of Colorado, September 21, 2009, accessed September 23, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Voss, James S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voss, James Shelton; Voss, Jim (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Cordova , Alabama