the Little Red Reviewer  Archive for the ‘Mary Roach’ Category
published in 2010  Where I got it:  the library           Beyond
the obvious, food, water, energy, what would we need for a trip
to Mars? The aeronautical engineers have already done all the
math for us, they know to within a miligram exactly how much
food and water can get sent up in a rocket needing how much
fuel.  But what about everything else?  What about everything we
take for granted down on Earth, that suddenly become much more
difficult when there is little to no gravity?  What kind of
clothes would you wear? how would you take a shower?  Can you
eat a sandwich? Enjoy the smell of vanilla flavored cookies?
What goes in must go out, so how would you go to the bathroom in
zero gravity? Even worse, what if free fall makes you sick to
your stomach?  Leave to to Mary Roach to find the truth, the
deepest darkest details of what we need for space.  From
parabololic flights on NASA’s specially outfitted military plane
(known coloquially as the