- New York Times bestseller, Popular works, Space biology, Manned space flight
Space is devoid of the stuff humans need to live: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh veg, privacy, beer. How much can a person give up? What happens when you can't walk for a year? Is sex any fun in zero gravity? As Mary Roach discovers, it's possible to explore space without ever leaving Earth. From the space shuttle training toilet to a 17,000-mile-per-hour crash test of NASA's space capsule, she takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the science of living in space.
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Contemporary, cool, plot-driven and warm.
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Mary Roach
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 334
- Publisher
- Brilliance Audio, Norton, ONEWorld Publications
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781611293753
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Mary Roach is an American author, specializing in popular science and humor. Roach is noted for her curiosity and humor in addition to her research. Her many humor-laced articles in various publications over the decades include her monthly humor column, "My Planet", in Reader's Digest. Although Roach writes primarily about science, she never intended to make it her career. Roach stated in an interview with TheVerge.com when asked what exactly got her hooked on writing about science, "To be honest, it turned out that science stories were always, consistently, the most interesting stories I was assigned to cover. TV and radio shows have repeatedly asked Roach to appear as a guest so they could
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