Astro turf
Subtitle: the private life of rocket science
By: by M.G. Lord.
Publisher: Walker; Walker & Co.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.) -- History; Rocketry
Description: During the late 1960s, while M.G. Lord was becoming a teenager in Southern California and her mother was dying of cancer, Lord's father--an archetypal, remote, Cold War-era rocket engineer--disappeared into his work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, helping build the space probes of the Mariner Mars 69 mission. Thirty years later, Lord found herself reporting on the JPL, triggering childhood memories and a desire to revisit her past as a way of understanding the ethos of rocket science.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.