Marsha Ivins, born April 15, 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland, is a veteran of five space shuttle flights.
Her first flight was aboard Columbia (STS-32) as mission specialist in January 1990, the first mission of the 1990s.
Her second flight was aboard Atlantis (STS-46) as mission specialist in July-August 1992. One of the objectives of the mission was to deploy the NASA/Italian Space Agency joint project, the Tethered Satellite System (TSS).
Her third flight was aboard Atlantis (STS-62) as mission specialist in March 1994. During the mission, she spoke with students at Bronx High School of Science, who asked her questions about experiments being conducted in space.
Her fourth flight was aboard Atlantis (STS-81) as mission specialist in January 1997 to the space station Mir. It was the fifth space shuttle mission mission to Mir.
Her fifth and final flight was aboard Atlantis (STS-98) as mission specialist to the International Space Station in February 2001. The crew delivered the Destiny Laboratory Module to the ISS.
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Happy birthday! ^.^
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