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A Passion for Space

Part of the Springer Praxis Books Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20258-7

ISBN: 978-3-319-20257-0

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jun 5, 2015

1 - 10 of 19 Chapters

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Space Girl Grows Up

Dyson, Marianne J.

Pages: 1 –14

[The author’s passion for space was stoked by Apollo 11’s landing on the Moon and Robert Heinlein’s science fiction, but family and society provided little encouragement for reaching her dream of becoming a scientist despite being identified as gifted. Participation in the 1970s Jesus People...
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Welcome to Houston

Dyson, Marianne J.

Pages: 15 –23

[The author was one of only two women graduate students in space physics at Rice University in Houston, Texas from 1977 to 1978. Lack of appropriate prerequisites in math led to a reassessment of her goal of becoming an astronomer. She discovered that getting a Ph.D. would take about six years...
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NASA Employee

Dyson, Marianne J.

Pages: 25 –50

[The author joined the male-dominated workforce at NASA Johnson Space Center in 1979. She helped develop the first computerized planning and scheduling tool (the Crew Activity Planning System) for flight document preparations; utilized simulators and worked with astronauts to test and verify...
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Shuttle Procedures and Training

Dyson, Marianne J.

Pages: 51 –71

[The Flight Activities Officer position in Mission Control in Houston is supported by a team of flight controllers including the Timeline position staffed by the author for the first space shuttle flight. To prepare for flight duties, the author participated in simulations during 1980 with the...
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The First Flight of the Space Shuttle: STS-1

Dyson, Marianne J.

Pages: 73 –101

[When President Reagan took office in January 1981, the Space Shuttle Columbia was on the launch pad, awaiting its first flight, and the author was busy preparing flight data file documents to accompany the crew, John Young and Robert Crippen, into space. She was in Mission Control at Johnson...
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Preparing for STS-2

Dyson, Marianne J.

Pages: 103 –122

[Between the first and second space shuttle flights, flight controllers integrated lessons learned into procedures and planning for future flights. The author was intimately involved in planning tests and payload activities for STS-3, including the Electrophoresis Equipment Verification Test and...
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STS-2: President Reagan Visits Mission Control

Dyson, Marianne J.

Pages: 123 –152

[The author was a member of the Ascent Team in Mission Control at Johnson Space Center during the second space shuttle flight that launched on November 12, 1981. She was responsible for monitoring the crew’s activities, amending procedures, and documenting the accomplishment of orbiter and...
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Preparation for STS-3

Dyson, Marianne J.

Pages: 153 –162

[In 1982, NASA promoted plans to use the space shuttle to build a Space Operations Center in Earth orbit that would lead to a private industrial space facility. Thus the third shuttle flight’s Office of Space Sciences (OSS) experiments and the Induced Environment Contamination Monitor would...
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STS-3: Realtime Flight Planning

Dyson, Marianne J.

Pages: 163 –192

[Because the STS-3 crew, Jack Lousma and Gordon Fullerton, suffered from space adaptation syndrome, Mission Operations Director Gene Kranz ordered the first woman Flight Activities Officer, Carolynn Conley, and the author who was the lead Timeline for the flight, to “swap” two days of the Crew...
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Secret Preparations and Discrete Discrimination

Dyson, Marianne J.

Pages: 193 –212

[Just after STS-3, the console assignments for future flights were redone, with all three women controllers in the Flight Activities Branch, including the author, removed from leadership positions and replaced by men with less console experience. Not knowing if the problem rose from the section,...

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