Marsha Ivins worked as an engineer at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and as a co-pilot in NASA’s administrative aircraft before being selected in the NASA Astronaut Class of 1984 as a mission specialist. A veteran of five space flights, Ms. Ivins has logged over 1,318 hours in space. She departed NASA on December 31, 2010.
Astronaut: Gravity Gets Me Down
The season’s big movie is beautiful and deeply disturbing in equal measures, says someone in a position to know