To Mars with Love (Signed)

Patricia Ann Straat

Palmetto Publishing Group, Charleston, 2018

[Association Copy, inscribed by Patricia Ann Straat on title page.] Near fine. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. x, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. *Autographed by author.*  

To Mars with Love, by Patricia Ann Straat, is the true and intimate account of a young woman's journey into space exploration sciences. As Co-Experimenter of the Viking Labeled Release Experiment (LR), Dr. Straat worked side by side with engineers to develop one of three life detection experiments sent to Mars on the 1976 Viking Mission. Her experiences in laboratories and conference rooms are juxtaposed to her parallel experiences in the beach side communities of Los Angeles, and with the equestrian worlds of Maryland and California.