Awake Retrieval by Nancy Zuckerman

Nancy Zuckerman is an exploration geophysics specializing in the arctic. She has been waiting for news of a missing space station since 2007. Nancy used to say, if I could be a superhero, I would be totally willing to be like a second string member of X-Men or the Justice League. But as she approached thirty, she'd made her peace with the realities of incremental science and the world as it was.