Post-NASA Career
After retiring from NASA in 2003, Voss became Associate Dean of Engineering for External Affairs at Auburn University, assisting with student projects and development for the College and teaching a class in Aerospace Engineering on human spacecraft design. While at Auburn he led a team of twelve aerospace engineering seniors and one graduate research assistant in the development of a crew seat prototype for space startup Transformational Space Corporation, or t/Space. In November 2007 Voss left t/Space to become the Vice President of Engineering at SpaceDev. He is now Sierra Nevada Corporation's director of advanced programs and program executive on the Dream Chaser spaceplane. In August 2009 Voss began a teaching as a Scholar in Residence at the University of Colorado at Boulder teaching a class on human spaceflight.
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