Marianne J. Dyson

Marianne Jakmides Dyson is a writer of non-fiction books, mostly for children, about space science. She grew up in Canton, Ohio, lives in Houston and has worked for NASA.[1]

Head shot of Marianne J. Dyson
Flight Activities Officer Marianne J. Dyson, a member of the STS-4 Entry Team, on console in Mission Control at Johnson Space Center.

Her book Space Station Science: Life in Free Fall was a Golden Kite Award winner in the year 2000. Her book "Home on the Moon: Living on a Space Frontier" won the American Institute of Physics Science Communications Award in 2004.[2][3] The first book she coauthored with Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet, was named a Best STEM book by the National Science Teachers Association.[4]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Fireworks in Orbit (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1990)
  • The Critical Factor (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1992)
  • The Shape of Things to Come (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1996)
  • Finding Homework Help On The Internet (Scholastic, 2000)
  • Home on the Moon: Living on a Space Frontier, ed. Jennifer Emmett (National Geographic, 2003)
  • The Space Explorer's Guide to Out-Of-This-World Science with Hena Khan (2004)[5]
  • The Space Explorer's Guide to Stars and Galaxies (Scholastic, 2004)
  • Space Station Science: Life In Free Fall foreword by Buzz Aldrin (Scholastic, 1999, 2nd ed. Windward, 2004)
  • Twentieth-century Space And Astronomy: A History of Notable Research And Discovery,ed. William J. Cannon (Facts On File, 2007)
  • Fly Me To The Moon (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2010)
  • Dyson's Space Poems (2011)
  • The Right Path and Zeus's Eagle (2011)
  • Science Fiction Versus the Real Thing: What I learned on NASA's Vomit Comet (2012)
  • The Callahan Kids: Tales of Life on Mars (Marianne J. Dyson, contributor) (2013)
  • Fly Me to the Moon and Other Stories (2015)
  • Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet by Buzz Aldrin and Marianne J. Dyson (National Geographic, 2015)
  • Dyson, Marianne J. (2015). A passion for space: adventures of a pioneering female NASA Flight Controller. Springer.
  • Dyson, Marianne (Jan–Feb 2015). "Space bugs". Probability Zero. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (1&2): 64–65.
  • "To the Moon and Back: My Apollo 11 Adventure" by Buzz Aldrin and Marianne J. Dyson with art by Bruce Foster (National Geographic, 2018)[6]
  • Trajectories (Marianne J. Dyson, contributor), ed. Dave Creek

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