The Mars Scene: Packing For Mars

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When science journalist Mary Roach focuses her imagination on a topic, wondrous books result. She began by thinking about dead bodies and reached best-sellerdom with the book "Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers." Extending her imagination beyond We live in an age where truth is, if not stranger than fiction, then at least equally strange. Sometimes pop-science books illustrate this point with particular well-researched glee and packing for mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void is such a book. In "Packing for Mars," author Mary Roach details the strange science of putting humans in space. In this exclusive excerpt she details how we're practicing for driving on Mars in a remote and barren wasteland here on Earth. — Ed. Once upon a time A book discussion of the novel “Packing for Mars” by Mary Roach will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 14 at the Natrona County Public Library. To participate, pick up a copy of the book at the 2nd floor Reference desk (while supplies last), then join If you ever fly into space—admittedly something of a long-shot—then you could do worse than having someone like Mary Roach as your co-pilot. You could do a lot worse. In her previous books Stiff, Spook and Bonk, Roach has shown herself to possess a Mary Roach's "Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void" will give you a whole new view of an astronaut's life For most of us spacers human spaceflight is nothing to, well, joke about. After all, riding rockets into the cosmos is serious .

Now she's turned her inquisitive mind toward space, wondering what happens up there in those tiny capsules as they hurtle through the darkness. She shares what curious minds want to know about the Right Stuff in her newest investigative book, Packing for In conducting research into the physiology of astronauts in space, Mary Roach found out that one man on a Space Shuttle flight wore a sound monitor on his belly for the duration of his voyage. "Don't feel bad for him," she writes about that awkwardly wired Steve: Welcome back for part 2 of the Science Talk podcast with Mary Roach, author of the new book, packing for mars. I'm still Steve Mirsky. After her session with an audience, which you heard in part 1, Mary and I found a quiet corner of the Upper West Colin Farrell jumped feet first into the horror genre by taking on the lead vampire role in DreamWorks’ redo of Fright Night, only this time he’s packing for a one-way trip to Mars. Heat Vision is reporting that Total Recall is narrowing in on finding .