Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

by Mary Roach

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 334
Published: 2010
Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
ISBN: 9780393339918

The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. From the Space Shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA’s new space capsule, Mary Roach takes us on the surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.

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