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NASA Astronaut Biographies- I
NAME: Marsha S. Ivins
NASA Astronaut
BIRTHPLACE AND DATE: Born April 15, 1951, in Baltimore, Maryland. Her
parents, Dr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Ivins, reside in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Brown hair; hazel eyes; height: 5 feet 4 inches;
weight: 100 pounds.
EDUCATION: Graduated from Nether Providence High School, Wallingford,
Pennsylvania, in 1969; received a bachelor of science degree in Aerospace
Engineering from the University of Colorado in 1973.
MARITAL STATUS: Single.
RECREATIONAL INTERESTS: She enjoys flying, aerobics, reading, baking.
ORGANIZATIONS: Member of the 99's (International Women Pilots Association),
Experimental Aircraft Association, and International Aerobatic Club.
NASA EXPERIENCE: Ivins has been employed at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
since July 1974, and until 1980, was assigned as an engineer, Crew Station
Design Branch, working on Orbiter Displays and Controls and Man Machine
Engineering. Her major assignment in 1978 was to participate in development of
the Orbiter Head-Up Display (HUD). In 1980 she was assigned as a flight
simulation engineer on the Shuttle Training Aircraft (Aircraft Operations).
She continued to work on development of the Orbiter HUD, in addition to duties
as a flight test engineer for the Shuttle Training Aircraft. Ms. Ivins also
served as co-pilot in the NASA administrative aircraft (Gulfstream l).
Ms. Ivins holds a multi-engine Airline Transport Pilot License with
Gulfstream-l type rating, a single engine airplane, land, sea, commercial
licenses, a glider commercial license, and instrument, multi-engine and glider
flight instructor ratings.
She has logged over 4,500 hours in civilian and NASA aircraft.
Selected by NASA in May 1984, Ms. Ivins became an astronaut in June 1985,
qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on future Space Shuttle flight
crews. Her technical assignments to date include astronaut support team for
Orbiter test and checkout at the Cape, crew support for Orbiter launches and
landings, payload operations involving upper stages, review of Orbiter safety
and reliability issues, software verification in the Shuttle Avionics
Integration Laboratory (SAIL), crew interface for Space Station safety and
reliability, and upgrades to the Orbiter cockpit.
Ms. Ivins was a mission specialist on the crew of STS-32 which launched from
the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on January 9, 1990. In the longest Shuttle
mission to date, crew members on board the Orbiter Columbia successfully
deployed the Syncom IV-F5 satellite, and retrieved the 21,400 lb Long Duration
Exposure Facility (LDEF) using the Remote Manipulator System (RMS). They also
operated a variety of middeck experiments including the Microgravity
Disturbance Experiment (MDE) using the Fluids Experiment Apparatus (FEA),
Protein Crystal Growth (PCG), American Flight Echocardiograph (AFE),
Latitude/Longitude Locator (L3), Mesoscale Lightning Experiment (MLE),
Characterization of Neurospora Circadian Rhythms (CNCR), and the IMAX Camera.
Ms. Ivins was responsible for conducting an extensive camera and film test to
evaluate improved equipment and techniques for on-board Shuttle photography.
Additionally, numerous medical test objectives, including inflight Lower Body
Negative Pressure (LBNP), inflight aerobic exercise and muscle performance were
conducted to evaluate human adaptation to extended duration missions.
Following 173 orbits of the earth in 261 hours, Columbia returned with a night
landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on January 20, 1990.
With the completion of her first space flight, Ms. Ivins has logged a total of
261 hours in space.
FEBRUARY 1990
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