who flew in space five times, matching the record for American women.

She logged over 49 days in space on five shuttle flights, including the Discovery mission in February 1995 that docked with the Russian space station Mir, and the February 2000 flight of Endeavour on a radar mapping mission. Voss worked at NASA's Johnson Space Center on computer simulations from 1973–5. She became a crew trainer in 1977, joined the Orbital Sciences Corporation in 1987, and was selected as an astronaut in 1990. She went on to join the Space Station Program Office, and was Science Director of the Kepler Space Observatory, 2004–7.