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Nationality USABirth 3 april 1958Death 8 july 2014 (at 56 years) at Los Angeles (
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Vanna Bonta (/vɑːnˈnɑː/ /bɒnˈtɑː/ VAHN-ah BON-tah; born April 3, 1958) is an American novelist, poet and film actress best known as the author of Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (Meridian House, 1995). The novel introduced quantum fiction as a literary genre that emerged in the 21st century.
Bonta is also known for collections of award-winning poetry, and for her role as Zed's queen, the hero's young mother, in the classic fantasy movie The Beastmaster.
She is also the inventor of the 2suit.
She was a model of Woman for the Frederick Hart work "Ex Nihilo" (Out of Nothing), the tympana on the west front entrance of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington D.C.
Bonta appeared in The Universe Season 3 Episode 4 "Sex in Space" and talked about how her 2suit could be used to achieve intimacy in microgravity toward the colonization of other planets. The History Channel documentary filmed her testing the 2suit in weightlessness, which marked Bonta's second zero gravity flight. She is an advocate of human innovation and space exploration. At NASA Ames in 2008, Bonta presented what she called futuristic "smart clothing" for fashion with functional innovations that included portable atmosphere and hydration in balloon couture, self-illuminating purse interiors. blue tooth earrings, thermal fabric, spray-on biodegradable "second skins" that protect and glitter, a travel shoe that converts from flats to heels, and velvet fabric with fibers that function as sensors.
Among Bonta's inventions is a pressure-release device for high-combustion rocket engines called a Rocket Engine Overpressurization Release Protection System (REORPS), a solution she innovated as a team member of BonNova, one of the competitors in the NASA-sponsored 2009 Lunar Lander Challenge
She is the daughter of a Florentine-American fine-art painter and American military officer, and the granddaughter of Luigi Ugolini.
Bonta wrote an undeveloped story, "Somewhen", for the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She is credited with numerous roles as a voice actor in feature films, such as Beauty and the Beast (Disney). She was the computer voice in the movie Demolition Man.
In 2013, a haiku by Vanna Bonta was among top three selections to be launched to the planet Mars on a NASA spaceship for the MAVEN mission. Biography
Vanna Bonta est la fille de Maria Luisa Ugolini Bonta, une peintre italienne et un officier de l'armée américaine et également de la petite-fille de Luigi Ugolini .
Parmi ses inventions notables sont le 2Suit, un vêtement conçu pour faciliter l'amour dans l'apesanteur ou dans l'espace extra atmosphérique. Elle était aussi membre de l'équipe BonNova dans la course pour le Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, une compétition sponsorisée par la NASA pour la création d'une prochaine génération de véhicules capables de se poser sur la lune ou d'autres planètes. En 1995, sa déclaration à propos des quasars liés aux trous noirs était plus tard confirmé par la découverte des astronomes en 2007.
Vanna Bonta est mariée à Allen Newcomb, un ingénieur concepteur de fusée et architecte en chef de BonNova, équipe qui participait au défi de l'alunissage initié par Northrop Grumman.
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