Marianne Dyson

Marianne Dyson was one of NASA's first female flight controllers, the subject of her Space Shuttle memoir, A Passion for Space. She's a speaker on space topics for adults and children, a technical editor, science fiction writer and book reviewer. She is best known for her award-winning children’s books about space, including the NSTA 2016 Outstanding Trade, Book Welcome to Mars, which she coauthored with Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin for National Geographic.