What seems so familiar to me in this quirky memoir may baffle
another, younger reader. As M.G. Lord describes the very male,
pioneer, crew-cut mentality of the early years of the space race,
and compares it to the 21st-century version, worlds collide. And
she was right in the middle of both; her father was a rocket
engineer obsessed with work to the point of neglecting a daughter
and wife who needed him. But back then, men worked and women stayed
home in so many examples of the American