Marianne Jakmides Dyson is a writer of non-fiction books, mostly for children, about space science. She grew up in Canton, Ohio, lives in Houston and has worked for NASA.[1]
Her book Space Station Science: Life in Free Fall was a Golden Kite Award winner in the year 2000. Her book "Home on the Moon: Living on a Space Frontier" won the American Institute of Physics Science Communications Award in 2004.[2][3] The first book she coauthored with Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet, was named a Best STEM book by the National Science Teachers Association.[4]
- ^ Goshay, Charita. "Mission accomplished". Canton Repository. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
- ^ https://www.aip.org/aip/awards/science-communication/children?page=2 List of AIP Award Winners
- ^ http://www.iop.org/careers/working-life/profiles/page_57808.html Interview with American Institute of Physics
- ^ http://www.nsta.org/publications/stembooks/stembooks2017.aspx NSTA Best STEM Book List for 2017