Okie who once made Science Fact, now chronicling Science Fiction

The New York Times > Science > Making Science Fact, Now Chronicling Science Fiction: Donna L. Shirley used to run NASA's Mars exploration program. Now she is doing something even more far out.
Ms. Shirley, who retired from NASA in 1998, is director of the new Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame...Ms. Shirley, 62, grew up in a small Oklahoma town with just one science-fiction book in the public library, Ray Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles." As a 12-year-old, she said, "I checked the book out over and over again."