TY  - BOOK
AB  - 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.
AU  - Lord, M. G.
CN  - TL782
CN  - TL782
CY  - New York :
DA  - 2005.
ID  - 290815
KW  - Rocketry.
N2  - 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.
PB  - Walker & Co.,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2005.
SN  - 0802714277
T1  - Astro turf :the private life of rocket science /
TI  - Astro turf :the private life of rocket science /
ER  -