Ivins was later assigned to the Astronaut Office supporting the Space Shuttle, Space Station and Constellation Branches.
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Marsha's travel on STS-81 Atlantis was the fifth to dock with Russia's Space Station Mir, and the second to exchange U.S. astronauts. The mission also carried the Spacehab double module, providing additional mid-deck locker space for secondary experiments. In five days, more than three tons of food, water, experiment equipment and samples were moved back and forth between the two spacecraft. Following 160 orbits of the Earth the STS-81 mission clocked almost 245 hours.
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Marsha's tour on STS-62 was a mission for the United States Microgravity Payload 2 and Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology. These payloads studied the effects of microgravity on materials sciences and other space flight technologies. Other experiments on board included demonstration of advanced "teleoperator" tasks using the remote manipulator system, protein crystal growth, and dynamic behavior of space structures. The flight lasted over 313 hours and completed 224 orbits in 5.82 million miles.
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STS-46 used the crew members to deploy the European Retrievable Carrier satellite, and conducted the first Tethered Satellite System test flight. The mission lasted over 192 hours. Space Shuttle Atlantis and her crew completed 126 orbits of the Earth in 3.35 million miles.
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Ivins participated in the STS-32 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, during which crew members on board the Orbiter Columbia successfully deployed a Syncom satellite, and retrieved the 21,400-pound Long Duration Exposure Facility. The mission logged about 261 hours, following 173 orbits of the Earth and 4.5 million miles.
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A veteran of five space flights, (STS-32 in 1990, STS-46 in 1992, STS-62 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997, and STS-98 in 2001), Ivins logged over 1,318 hours in space. She logged over 7000 hours in civilian and NASA aircraft.
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Ivins earned a multi-engine Airline Transport Pilot License with Gulfstream-1 type rating, single engine airplane, land, sea, and glider commercial licenses, and airplane, instrument, and glider flight instructor ratings.
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Ivins showed a spectacular variation in professions: she was employed at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in 1974, working as an engineer for orbiter displays and controls and man machine engineering, and development of the Orbiter Head-Up Display. In 1980, she was assigned as a flight engineer on the Shuttle Training Aircraft (Aircraft Operations) and a co-pilot in the NASA administrative aircraft(Gulfstream-1). Ivins was selected in the NASA Astronaut Class of 1984 as a mission specialist.
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A veteran of five space shuttle flights, (STS-32 in 1990, STS-46 in 1992, STS-62 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997, and STS-98 in 2001), Ivins has logged over 1,318 hours in space.
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NASA astronaut Ivins graduated from Nether Providence High School, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, in 1969 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado in 1973.
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Interstellar
2014
technical consultant
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Space Station 3D
2002
Documentary
Herself (Mission Specialist, STS-98)
Horizon
1997
TV Series documentary
Herself
Known for movies
Interstellar (2014) as Miscellaneous Crew
Space Station 3D (2002) as Herself (Mission Specialist, STS-98)
$19 Million
