Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:41:55 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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Subject: [WSFA] SS Janice Voss: Station-Bound Spaceship a 'Fitting Tribute' to Astronaut
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:
Astronaut Janice Voss never flew to the International Space Station. But
in her memory, her name is making the trip on a spacecraft christened in
her honor.

Orbital Sciences launched the SpaceShip Janice Vosson Sunday afternoon
(July 13) from a pad at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The
unmanned cargo freighter is set to arrive at the space station on
Wednesday.

"Janice was a friend of many of us, both in the Orbital and NASA
communities," said Frank Culbertson, Orbital's vice president and a former
NASA astronaut, about Voss, who worked for Orbital as an engineer before
flying five times as a NASA space shuttle mission specialist. "We wanted
to honor her and her family by naming this spacecraft for [her]. We think
it is a fitting tribute to a really fine engineer and outstanding
astronaut." [Gallery: Orbital Sciences' Orb-2 Cygnus Mission in Photos]

Voss died in February 2012, succumbing to breast cancer at the age of 55.
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<http://www.space.com/26512-private-spaceship-honors-astronaut-janice-voss.html>

      mark