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, a science fiction writer and book reviewer. Marianne is best known for her award-winning children's books about space, including the NSTA Best STEM Book, Welcome to Mars, which she coauthored with Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin for National Geographic. Their next collaboration, a pop-up book, To the Moon and Back: My Apollo 11 Adventure, comes out in October 2018.