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The author weighed cost, nursing, and career factors in her decision to extend her maternity leave from NASA from four to six months. Her boss’s insistence on putting the job first and refusing to grant time off for Christmas pushed her to extend her leave to nine months—a decision that would eventually lead her to leave NASA. During her leave, she was a featured speaker at a Professional Women Speak event at Texas Southmost College in Brownsville, presenting a status of women at NASA. Her husband was on console during several computer failures that delayed the landing of STS-9, the first Spacelab flight. The author published her first articles about space while on maternity leave.
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Dyson, M.J. (2016). Being Home with Baby. In: A Passion for Space. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20258-7_15
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