author: Mary Roach
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2013/04/19
date added: 2013/04/20
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review:
Mary Roach's quirky science writing is always a favorite of mine, and I love space travel, so this book was sure to be a hit with me. She explores the most difficult piece of machinery in a spacecraft, namely the humans. The book talks about all sorts of experiments and attempts to find out what happens to humans when they travel in space.
Not for the easily queasy, and there are probably chapters you shouldn't read during a meal. Topics include bone loss, how human waste functions, what happens when you don't bathe for a certain amount of time, different food experiments (including the unofficial "corned beef incident" that happened when an astronaut smuggled a sandwich aboard the Gemini 3). She discusses spaceflight experiments with animals and corpses. All very interesting, some a bit disgusting and disquieting, and all with a dash of humor. Her enthusiasm for learning comes through in her writing.
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