Dietrich Marion Credit - www.spacefacts.de

Personal: Female. Born in San Francisco, California, USA. Cancer. Degrees in mathematics and psychology from the University of California, Berkley, 1949. Jan and Marion Dietrich were identical twins, 34 years old when they received notification from the Lovelace Clinic that they had passed the screening tests for astronaut training. They graduated together from the University of California, Berkley in 1949. Marion worked for a time as a newspaper reporter for the Oakland Tribune, flying supersonic as a passenger in a fighter aircraft on a story assignment. She became a pilot as well, flying charter and ferry flights. By the time she went to the Lovelace Clinic for her astronaut medical screening, whe has 1500 hours of flying time.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Mercury 13 - 1961. Deceased Entered space service: 1960. Left space service: unknown. One of the group of women who went to the Lovelace Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1961 and underwent the same medical and psychological tests that the Mercury 7 astronauts had completed. She was one of the Mercury 13 finalists, considered qualified by Dr. Lovelace for astronaut training.