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Astro Turf is a witty and perceptive look at the history of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California as seen from the daughter of one of its leading rocket scientists. Lord's lens is trained on the macho culture of the program, the culture that set her father at such emotional remove, as well as America's pop culture of the 1960s. What is at once a social history of the space travel program is also a poignant and thoroughly engaging ode to a daughter's love.