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Title: PACKING FOR MARS
THE CURIOUS SCIENCE OF LIFE IN THE VOID
By: Mary Roach
Format: Hardback

List price: £21.99


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ISBN 10: 0393068471
ISBN 13: 9780393068474
Publisher: WW NORTON & CO
Pub. date: 24 August, 2010
Pages: 334
Description: The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity.
Synopsis: 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."
Illustrations: black & white illustrations
Publication: US
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Returns: Returnable
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