Piping the rovers home

[Barb T]

I've read all of Ben Bova's books - would love to go to Mars myself some day. Too old, though. Have to live vicariously through the experiences of some fabulously intelligent people in the astronaut corps - but am really hoping that we will set foot on Mars before I pass on. It's fun to have a daughter who might actually make it there some day.

I didn't say that I had the incomparable pleasure of working next to my daughter as a professional geologist - she was the OPSLINK between the operations folks and the science team for several days and then one of the field geologists accompanying the rover teams and evaluating what they were doing. Am I a proud mama or what?