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The author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it mea... Full description
Table of Contents:
- 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: planing 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?