A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert Piper Karen
A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert Piper Karen A surreal and poignant coming of age on a secretive missile facility, and "an incredible view of...life in a town built…
Specifikacia A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert Piper Karen
A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert Piper Karen
A surreal and poignant coming of age on a secretive missile facility, and "an incredible view of...life in a town built for war."--BooklistThe China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware. But people who make missiles and other weapons are regular working people, with domestic routines and everyday dilemmas, and four of them were Karen Piper's parents, her sister, and--when she needed summer jobs--herself. It was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy.
When her mom got tired of being a stay-at-home mom, she went to work on the Tomahawk. Her dad designed the Sidewinder, which was ultimately used catastrophically in Vietnam. Once, when a missile nose needed to be taken offsite for final testing, her mother loaded it into the trunk of the family car, and set off
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