2010, Packing for Mars
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<div class="authorName__container"><a class="authorName" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7956.Mary_Roach">Mary Roach</a> <span class="greyText">(Goodreads Author)</span></div>
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<div id="description" class="readable stacked"><span id="freeText10734978011104551667"><strong>The best-selling author of <em>Stiff</em> and <em>Bonk</em> explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity.</strong>
Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk? Is it possible for the human body to survive a bailout at 17,000 miles per hour?
To answer these questions, space agencies set up all manner of quizzical and startlingly bizarre space simulations. As Mary Roach discovers, it’s possible to preview space without ever leaving Earth. From the space shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA’s new space capsule (cadaver filling in for astronaut), Roach takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.</span> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7237456-packing-for-mars" data-text-id="10734978011104551667">(less)</a></div>
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<div class="row">Hardcover, 334 pagesPublished</div>
<div class="row">August 2nd 2010 by W. W. Norton & CompanyOriginal</div>
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<div class="infoBoxRowItem"><a class="award" href="https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/21332-goodreads-choice-award">Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2010)</a></div>
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