
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Paperback
Technology & EngineeringAstronomy & SpacePhysics
Publisher Price: $16.95
ISBN13: 9780393339918
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Published: Apr 4 2011
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.57
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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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