num_pages: 272
description: Drawing on her own memories of growing up as the daughter of a rocket engineer in the late 1960s, the author of Forever Barbie describes her fascination with her father's work at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory while recalling her pain at her father's absence and her fascination with science and space exploration. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science
titlecomplete: Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science
genres: Biography, History, Science, Engineering, Space, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 120
publisher: Walker Books