The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity.
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?
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Author: Mary Roach
Price: $11.47 *Individual store prices may vary.
ISBN: 0393068471
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Year of Publication: 2010
Genre: Non-Fiction,
Date Read: Nov 26, 2010
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