02665cam a2200385 i 4500 2456970699 TxAuBib 20250904120000.0 241216s2025||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9798217083572 trade paper 32.00 (OCoLC)1499566835 TxAuBib rda Reid, Taylor Jenkins. Atmosphere [BOOK] : a love story / Taylor Jenkins Reid. Large print edition. [New York] : Random House Large Print Publishing, [2025] xi, 464 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. "Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.". 20250904. United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration Fiction. Astronauts Fiction. Women astronauts Fiction. Space shuttles Fiction. Woman-woman relationships Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) in women Fiction. Nineteen eighties Fiction. Women college teachers Fiction. Houston (Tex) Fiction. Historical fiction. Large print books.