Nancy Jan Davis
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | June 5, 1987 ( 12th NASA Group ) |
| Calls: | 3 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
September 12, 1992 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
August 19, 1997 |
| Time in space: | 28d 2h 7min |
| retired on | June 21, 1999 |
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Nancy Jan Davis (born November 1, 1953 in Cocoa Beach , Florida ) is a former American astronaut . Her maiden name is Nancy Jan Smotherman, she later took the name of her stepfather (Davis).
education
Davis earned a bachelor's degree in applied biology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1975 and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Auburn University in 1977 . In 1983 she received a Masters in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville .
Jan Davis joined Texaco in 1977 as an engineer . In 1979 she moved to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center as an aerospace engineer . There she worked on the development of the Hubble and Chandra space telescopes . In 1987 she was chief engineer for the redevelopment of the reinforced connection rings of the space shuttle solid rocket for attachment to the external tank .
Astronaut activity
After an unsuccessful application for NASA's tenth group of astronauts, Davis was selected with the twelfth group in June 1987. She worked as a liaison officer ( CAPCOM ) for seven shuttle flights. In the astronaut office, she worked in the space shuttle robotic arm department and later she was responsible for the payloads of the shuttle and ISS missions . After her last mission, STS-85 , she became head of the Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) program at NASA headquarters. From 1999 she became first deputy director and later director of the Flight Projects Directorate at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville . She was director of Safety and Mission Assurance at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
STS-47
On September 12, 1992 Davis started as a mission specialist with the space shuttle Endeavor for the tenth Spacelab mission. On board 43 experiments of various kinds were carried out, for example it was tested whether hornets had the ability to build honeycombs in weightlessness . The result was negative. Experiments were also carried out in the medical field. For the first time, a couple flew into space together, because at the time Mark C. Lee and Jan Davis were married.
STS-60
On February 3, 1994, Davis started as a mission specialist on the space shuttle Discovery . A special feature of this flight was that Sergei Krikaljow was the first Russian spaceman to fly an American spaceship. The Wake Shield Facility and the Spacehab module were the main payloads on board.
STS-85
On August 7, 1997, Davis started as a mission specialist on the space shuttle Discovery . During the twelve-day flight, the German research platform CRISTA -SPAS was set free to study the upper atmosphere for over a week. In addition, the Japanese MFD (Manipulator Flight Demonstration) robot arm was tested by the astronauts.
According to NASA
After leaving NASA in October 2005, she worked at Jacobs Sverdrup Engineering, Science, and Technical Services.
Private
Davis is third married and has two children. Her second husband was NASA astronaut Mark Lee .
See also
Web links
- Short biography of Nancy Jan Davis at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Nancy Jan Davis (PDF)
- Biography of Nancy Jan Davis in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Davis, Nancy Jan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Davis, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cocoa Beach , Florida, USA |