'Packing For Mars' by Mary Roach
What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a spacewalk? Is it really difficult to burp in space? What happens if you don?t walk for a year? Is it possible for the human body to survive a bailout at 17,000 miles per hour? Which would be worse if you spent a year in space: not being able to have sex or not being able to have a beer? If questions like this keep you up at night, you really need to read Mary Roach?s new book, ?Packing for Mars: The curious science of life in the void.? The book takes a look at the challenges of sending the human body ? with all its requirements and desires — into space.
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