Luis Marden - Other Activities

Other Activities

  • Marden worked for NASA for a time, taking innovative photographs of rocket launches and the activities of the Project Mercury astronauts.
  • He was a founding member of the Sea Research Society and served on its Board of Advisors and in 1972 participated in the creation of the research/professional degree of Doctor of Marine Histories.
  • He also made eleven travelogue films for the Society's lecture series.
  • In the early 1990s, he flew ultralight aircraft. Marden owned and piloted a Quicksilver MX from Whitman's Strip, a small airport in the Virginia countryside.

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