Marsha Ivins

Marsha Ivins
Country:	United States
Organization:	NASA
selected on	May 23, 1984 ( 10th NASA Group )
Calls:	5 space flights
Start of the first space flight:	January 9, 1990
Landing of the last space flight:	February 20, 2001
Time in space:	55d 21h 48m
retired on	December 31, 2010
Space flights
STS-32 (1990) STS-46 (1992) STS-62 (1994) STS-81 (1997) STS-98 (2001)

Marsha Sue Ivins (born April 15, 1951 in Baltimore , Maryland ) is a former American astronaut .

Ivins received a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado in 1973 . From July 1974 to 1980 she then worked as an engineer at NASA's Johnson Space Center , among other things on the development of a display for the space shuttle cockpit. From 1980 she was employed as a technician for the Shuttle Training Aircraft and as a copilot for NASA's administrative aircraft, a Gulfstream 1.

Astronaut activity

Ivins experiments with weightlessness during STS-98

Ivins applied unsuccessfully for NASA's ninth astronaut group. In May 1984, however, she was accepted with the tenth group and subsequently trained as a mission specialist.

STS-32

Ivins flew into space for the first time on January 9, 1990 on the Columbia space shuttle . The main tasks of the flight included the successful launch of the Syncom IV-F5 communications satellite and the recovery of the LDEF research platform with the robotic arm.

STS-46

Ivins took off on the Space Shuttle Atlantis on July 31, 1992 for the STS-46 mission . During the eight-day flight, the EURECA satellite was suspended and tests were carried out with the Tethered Satellite System (TSS).

STS-62

On March 4, 1994, Ivins took off on the space shuttle Columbia for her third space flight. The payload was the United States Microgravity Payload 2 (USMP) and Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology 2 (OAST). With these payloads, the effects of weightlessness could be researched.

STS-81

On January 12, 1997, Ivins flew on the space shuttle Atlantis to the Mir space station . The focus was on the material transport and the change of a crew member. Scientific experiments were located in the middle deck of the ferry, while others were housed in a spacehab double module.

STS-98

Her last mission took her on February 7, 2001 with the space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station (ISS). The US space laboratory Destiny was brought to the ISS and assembled there. In addition, a docking nozzle was moved and supplies for the first long-term crew were brought along.

See also

• List of spacemen
• List of space shuttle missions
• List of manned space flights
• List of manned missions to the International Space Station
• List of manned missions to the Mir space station

Web links

Commons : Marsha Ivins  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography of Marsha Ivins at spacefacts.de
• NASA biography of Marsha Ivins (English; PDF)
• Biography of Marsha Ivins in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
• Marsha Ivins in the Internet Movie Database (English)