![]() ![]() There’s maintenance work, lots of mathematics, space ship mumbo jumbo, and of course interpersonal tensions when people are crammed into limited space for such a long period of time.īut this wouldn’t be a Lady Astronaut novel if it didn’t also have lots of social commentary. She goes through training, she gets on the ship with the rest of her team, she lives on that ship with the team for a long, long time. On the one hand, there is the very straight forward story of a woman joining the mission to Mars. I adored this story! It goes through several phases, all of which have different layers to offer for readers. The fact that the mission commander is none other than Stetson Parker doesn’t help either… ![]() ![]() And entering an established team of people as “the new one” is not good for Elma’s anxiety. The Mars team has been training for months already when Elma gets asked to join them. ![]() But this strain on the relationship is only one difficulty. Except it also means at least three years away from Earth, away from her family and her husband Nathaniel. So when the opportunity arises for her to join the first manned Mars mission, she can’t believe her luck. She has not only become an astronaut – the Lady Astronaut, in fact – but she actually spends part of her year living on the moon! Piloting a shuffle from space station to the moon and back is great and all, but Elma yearns for the stars. ![]()
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