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Marianne J. Dyson

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Canton, Ohio, The United States

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Marianne Dyson was one of NASA's first female flight controllers, the subject of her memoir, A Passion for Space. She's a writer, technical editor, and speaker on space topics for all ages. Her children's books have won the SCBWI Golden Kite, American Institute of Physics Science Communications, and NSTA Best STEM Book awards. A member of SFWA, her fiction appears in magazines and anthologies, with favorites reprinted in her indie collection, Fly Me to the Moon. She’s celebrating Apollo’s legacy with To the Moon and Back, coauthored with Buzz Aldrin, and Welcome to the Moon published by the nonprofit Aldrin Family Foundation. ...more

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	Space Station Science: Life in Free Fall by Marianne J. Dyson (Goodreads Author), Buzz Aldrin (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fly Me to the Moon and other stories 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Passion for Space: Adventures of a Pioneering Female NASA Flight Controller (Springer Praxis Books) 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home on the Moon: Living on a Space Frontier really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shuttle Mission Control: Flight Controller Stories and Photos, 1981-1992 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twentieth-century Space And Astronomy: A History of Notable Research And Discovery by Marianne J. Dyson (Goodreads Author), William J. Cannon (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Space Explorer's Guide to Stars and Galaxies it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homework Help on the Internet 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dyson's Space Poems really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Callahan Kids: Tales of Life on Mars it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Best Times & Places to see the Aurora

Marianne Dyson, February 2024

The Aurora is poetically described as the dance of electrons in Earth’s magnetic embrace. The glowing green curtain of light waving in the cosmic wind is an incredible phenomenon and something everyone should see at least once in their life. So where are the best places and times to see the Aurora?

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Arctic Front (WW III Book 4)

by Ian Slater

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Trial by the Gods (The Seventh Shaman Book 5)

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Marianne Dyson rated a book it was amazing Tortillas to Astronauts: An Unexpected Journey by Debbie Ramos Trainor	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The philosopher had postulated that a thought was somehow a collapse of the quantum mechanical wave function to a specific state. He further postulated that unlike someone putting their finger in running water to reduce the temperature possibilities to one value, in the presence of enough space-time curvature, probabilities are reduced to an actual state without need of an observer.”
― Marianne J. Dyson, Fly Me to the Moon and other stories

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“To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort.”
― Gene Kranz, Failure is not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

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“Mars is there, waiting to be reached.”
― Buzz Aldrin

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“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
― Robert Heinlein

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“In soloing--as in other activities--it is far easier to start something than to finish it.”
― Amelia Earhart

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“Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward, you will ask no other.”
― Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

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