Phoenix Dreams by Leigh Kimmel
In Greek myth, the phoenix is a bird that rises from its own ashes. Growing up in the city named for it, Toni knew the story well, and her experience with computer games made her comfortable with the idea of death being negotiable. So when she found a cache of old space memorabilia in her grandfather's attic, she never guessed that her eagerness to right a historic wrong would meet with such ferocious opposition.
But it only made her more determined to give this man his spaceflight, even a century late. She would learn the skills, develop the code, and do whatever it took
