(Marianne Dyson)  One of NASA's first female flight controllers, Marianne Dyson shares first-person accounts of high-stakes situations--including her own--in her books, A Passion for Space and Shuttle Mission Control. Her nonfiction children’s books (including two coauthored with Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin) have been recognized by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the American Institute of Physics, and the National Science Teachers Association. She enjoys writing for Ad Astra and Analog magazines and playing Pokémon with her international family.