[8] Voss continued her education at MIT, earning her Master of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1977, completing her thesis on Kalman filtering techniques.

[7] For her PhD work, Voss focused on developing algorithms to identify frequencies, damping, and mode shapes for the International Space Station.

Voss claims that the powerful female roles did not strike her as unusual, but were the norms she accepted in life.

She later returned to Johnson Space Center in 1977, and spent one year working as a crew trainer, teaching entry guidance and navigation.

[1] In the Fall of 1992, TOS launched the Mars Observer from a Titan rocket and the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite in September 1993.

[3] Voss logged over 49 days in space, traveled 18.8 million miles in 779 Earth orbits, and all of her missions included at least one other woman.

[1][14] From October 2004 to November 2007, she was the Science Director for NASA's Kepler space telescope, a Sun-orbiting satellite designed to find Earth-like extrasolar planets in nearby planetary systems.

[17] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.