A daughter's journey to rediscover her father and understand the culture of space engineers during the late 1960s, while M. Lord was becoming a teenager in southern California and her mother was dying of cancer, lord's f...A daughter's journey to rediscover her father and understand the culture of space engineers during the late 1960s, while M. Lord was becoming a teenager in southern California and her mother was dying of cancer, lord's father-an archetypal, remote, rocket engineer- disappeared into his work at the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, building the space probes of the mariner mars 69 mission.