Marsha Ivins

Retired astronaut Marsha Ivins (Aero’73) spoke in September 2013 at the 42nd annual National Stearman Fly-In. Marsha got her pilot’s license at age 17, joined NASA at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in 1974 and was assigned flight engineer on the Shuttle Train Aircraft and as a pilot on NASA administrative aircraft in 1980. Marsha became the 11th of 45 American women to fly in space and has flown five missions and spent a total of 55 days, 21 hours and 48 minutes in space. She continues to work as an independent engineering consultant and lives in Wallingford, Pa.