![]() As Mary Roach discovers, it’s possible to preview space without ever leaving Earth. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can’t 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 17,000 miles per hour? To answer these questions, space agencies set up all manner of quizzical and startlingly bizarre space simulations. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. ![]() Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. ![]() Inverarity One-line summary: Everything you ever wanted to know about vomiting, sweating, pooping, wanking, and dying in space. ![]()
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