SpaceDev (SPDV.OB) announced that former astronaut, James S. Voss, has been elected as Vice President of Engineering. Mr. Voss will be responsible for directly leading SpaceDev’s engineering employees and will have a direct and active role with client interaction, product designs, and reviewing SpaceDev’s engineering and quality processes.
Before being employed with SpaceDev, Mr. Voss began his career in the U.S. Army. During his period with the Army, he rose to the rank of Colonel and graduated from the Army Airborne and Ranger schools. Shortly after Mr. Voss’s period at the Army ended, Mr. Voss taught aerospace and mechanics at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He then attended, and was a distinguished graduate of, the US Naval Test Pilot School and the Armed Forces Staff College before moving into Aviation Engineering as a Program Development Coordinator.
Additionally, Mr. Voss is a former NASA astronaut with over 19 years of operational spaceflight experience including five space flights on the Space Shuttle including a long duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). Since then, he has logged more than 200 days in space and over 22 hours of spacewalk (EVA) time.
“Jim has an extraordinary breadth of experience in engineering, business, the military, education and the space program,” said Mark N. Sirangelo, SpaceDev’s Chairman and CEO. “We are fortunate to have an individual of his caliber join our team.”
Let us hear your thoughts below: