June and her classmates are obsessed with Inquiry, the first-ever craft using the fuel cells invented by her uncle with a team of his students, which has lost propulsion control while orbiting Saturn. She’s only 12, but she has learned from her famous uncle to always ask of a piece of machinery, “What does it do?” This phrase echoes throughout the text as June trains for work in space Day does a terrific job of making an engineer’s thought process as exciting as a thriller’s chase scenes. Her uncle has recently died when narrator June is sent to the school named for him on the National Space Program campus. In the near-ish future, a gifted engineer dreams of repairing the flaw in the fuel cells designed by her uncle that doomed a long-distance space mission.
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