Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br><p><strong>Americas funniest science writer (<em>Washington Post</em>) returns to explore the irresistibly strange universe of life without gravity in this <em>New York Times</em> bestseller.</strong></p> 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 means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you cant walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk? Is it possible for the human body to survive a bailout at 17000 miles per hour? To answer these questions space agencies set up all manner of quizzical and startlingly bizarre space simulations. As Mary Roach discovers its possible to preview space without ever leaving Earth. From the space shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASAs new space capsule (cadaver filling in for astronaut) Roach takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br><strong>Amazon Best Books of the Month?? August 2010</strong>: With her wry humor and inextinguishable curiosity?? Mary Roach has crafted her own quirky niche in the so"hat staid world of science writing?? showing no fear (or shame) in the face of cadavers?? ectoplasm?? or sex. In <i>Packing for Mars</i>?? Roach tackles the strange science of space travel?? and the psychology?? technology?? and politics that go into sending a crew into orbit. Roach is unfailingly inquisitive (Why is it i