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ASTRO TURF: The Private Life of Rocket Science
M.G. LORD
This is the story of a rocket laboratory, the world-renowned Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) from a personal perspective. In this memoir, Lord examines the professional lives of a few of the scientists and engineers responsible for the united States' successes in space during the 1960s and 1970s: men with intense focus, keen...