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Packing for Mars : the curious science of life in the void / Mary Roach.
Record details
- ISBN: 0393339912 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780393339918 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781611293753 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1611293758 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 334 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2011, c2010.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | He's smart but his birds are sloppy. Japan picks an astronaut -- Life in a box. The perilous psychology of isolation and confinement -- Star crazy. Can space blow your mind? -- You go first. The alarming prospect of life without gravity -- Unstowed. Escaping gravity on board NASA's C-9 -- Throwing up and down. The astronaut's secret misery -- The cadaver in the space capsule. NASA visits the crash test lab -- One furry step for mankind. The strange careers of Ham and Enos -- Next gas : 200,000 miles. Planning a moon expedition is tough, but not as tough as planning a simulated one -- Houston, we have a fungus. Space hygiene and the men who stopped bathing for science -- The horizontal stuff. What if you never got out of bed? -- The three-dolphin club. Mating without gravity -- Withering heights. Bailing out from space -- Separation anxiety. The continuing saga of zero-gravity elimination -- Discomfort food. When veterinarians make dinner, and other tales of woe from aerospace test kitchens -- Eating your pants. Is Mars worth it? |
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| Subject: | Space biology > Popular works. Manned space flight > Popular works. Astronauts > Training of. Astronauts > Training of. Manned space flight. Space biology. |
| Genre: | Popular works. |
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